Marble Place, California

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Fort Bragg census division. It lies near Gulch Thirtyone. The Survey maps it on the Northspur quadrangle. It stands 1,512 feet above sea level.

Marble Place within Mendocino County

Then and now

1920 to 1991

The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Marble Place, surveyed 1991

Topographic sheet of Marble Place, surveyed 1920

Compare 1920 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1920 USGS Glenblair quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Glenblair quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Comptche quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1960 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Ukiah quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1991 USGS Northspur quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

23 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Marble Place between 1993 and 2020, burning about 275 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Arson/incendiarism	2
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	1
Debris and open burning	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
3 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Mendocino Unit	LIGHTNING 29
22 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Mendocino Unit	SPURR
19 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Mendocino Unit	OSULLIVAN
18 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Mendocino Unit	SKUNK
15 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Mendocino Unit	NORTH
30 August 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Mendocino Unit	SHERWOOD
18 August 2007	Misuse of fire by a minor	3.0 acres	Mendocino Unit	RIDGE 3
1 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Mendocino Unit	WENTE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mendocino County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Alpine	1.6 miles	14
Wanhala	1.7 miles	14
Northspur	2.7 miles	14
Irmulco	3.8 miles	14
Grove	4.8 miles	14
Shake City	5.9 miles	15
Redwood Lodge	6.4 miles	14
Burbeck	7.1 miles	15

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q6755213

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1659054. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.