Marble, Colorado
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Somerset census division. It lies in ZIP code area 81623. It stands on Carbonate Creek. The Survey maps it on the Marble quadrangle. 133 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,992 feet above sea level.
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On record in Marble
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 8 records
Haxby Houselisted 1996
Marble City State Bank Buildinglisted 1999
Marble High Schoollisted 1989
Marble Town Halllisted 1989
William D. Parry Houselisted 1989
St. Paul's Churchlisted 1989- Marble Jailhouselisted 2016
- Marble Mill Sitelisted 1979
Population over time
2 figuresMarble grew from 131 to 133 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 131 | |
| 2020 | 133 | +2 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1957 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Marble quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1962 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Leadville quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Carbondale quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
6 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Marble between 2003 and 2018, burning about 2 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None was 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 | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Northwest District, Grand Junction | PTX ASSIST 1 |
| 9 August 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Carbondale & Rural Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 26 August 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | White River National Forest | HUNTER |
| 27 July 2003 | Natural | under an acre | White River National Forest | YULE CREEK |
| 4 May 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Carbondale & Rural Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 12 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Carbondale & Rural Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 56 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 56 workings within 5 miles of Marble: 17 occurrences, 15 producers, 13 past producers, 11 unknowns. 15 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Marble, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aspen-Riverside Group | Gold, Zinc, Silver, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Black Eagle | Copper, Zinc, Lead, Silver | Producer | Silver | |
| Black Queen Shaft | Silver, Gold, Zinc | Past Producer | 1889, 1893 | |
| Catalpa Mine | Lead, Copper, Gold, Silver, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Catapala | Copper, Zinc, Lead | Producer | Copper, Lead | |
| Chair Creek Tunnel | Beryllium | Past Producer | ||
| Copper King Mine | Silver, Gold, Lead, Zinc | Occurrence | ||
| Evening Star | Lead, Silver, Copper | Occurrence | Replacement | |
| Gold Pan Vein | Zinc, Copper, Gold, Silver | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Milwaukee | Lead, Silver, Copper, Zinc | Producer | Vein |
Storms near this place
13 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marble in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 6 debris flow, 3 flash flood, 2 flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 7 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2006 | Lightning | Marble | 7 hurt | no account filed |
| July 2021 | Debris Flow | Marble | $25,000 | Numerous mud and rockslides occurred near Emerald Lake at the end of Gothic Road. Some slides were smaller than others but the biggest was reported to be about 6 feet deep. |
| September 1999 | Flash Flood | Marble | $15,000 | no account filed |
| August 2023 | Flood | Marble | $5,000 | Daniels Hill (a section of Gunnison County Road 3) was damaged and unpassable due to flooding from heavy rain. The road remained closed until the following afternoon. |
| August 2023 | Debris Flow | Marble | $5,000 | The Lead King Basin Loop Road, a 13-mile loop near Marble that travels through the Lead King Basin, experienced debris flows due to heavy rain from thunderstorms. The road was not accessible. |
| August 2022 | Debris Flow | Marble | $2,500 | Multiple debris flows occurred on Forest Service Road 314 in White River National Forest as a result of heavy rain from thunderstorms. The debris was 18 feet deep in some spots. The road remained closed for several days due to cleanup operations. |
| August 1997 | Flash Flood | Marble | $2,000 | no account filed |
| August 2022 | Debris Flow | Marble | $500 | A minor mudslide occurred on the south side of the Crystal River by Marble as a result of heavy rain from thunderstorms. |
| August 2022 | Debris Flow | Marble | $250 | A mudslide occurred as a result of heavy rain from thunderstorms near Marble along County Road 3. |
| June 2024 | Debris Flow | Marble | - | A thunderstorm produced heavy rain over the Crystal River Drainage, which caused a mudslide on Highway 133 between mile markers 45 and 46 to the west of Marble, Colorado. Between 0.3 and 0.8 inches of rain was estimated on radar. |
| May 2021 | Tornado (EFU) | Marble | - | A storm chaser traveling along County Road 12 (Kebler Pass) observed a high elevation landspout tornado near the summit of Purple Mountain. The tornado was estimated to be near 12,600 ft and traveled a short distance along the ridge, before dissipating. Snow could be seen blowing around the base of the rotation as it moved across the ridge. |
| September 2002 | Flood | Marble | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Flash Flood | Marble | - | no account filed |
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crystal | 4.7 miles | 17 | |
| Pittsburg | 10.7 miles | 27 | |
| Elkton | 11.1 miles | 27 | |
| Patterson Place | 12.5 miles | 14 | |
| Gothic | 13.1 miles | 26 | |
| Irwin | 14.5 miles | 26 | |
| Harry Parker Place | 14.9 miles | 14 | |
| Ruby | 15.1 miles | 26 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Marble | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q662804 | 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 175531. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.






