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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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Marble within Gunnison County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Marble 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.

YearPeople Change
2010131
2020133+2 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

Fires near this place

6 since 2003

Regional 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/undetermined3
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
11 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwest District, Grand JunctionPTX ASSIST 1
9 August 2017Naturalunder an acreCarbondale & Rural Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
26 August 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWhite River National ForestHUNTER
27 July 2003Naturalunder an acreWhite River National ForestYULE CREEK
4 May 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCarbondale & Rural Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
12 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCarbondale & Rural Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gunnison County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 56 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Aspen-Riverside GroupGold, Zinc, Silver, LeadPast Producer
Black EagleCopper, Zinc, Lead, SilverProducerSilver
Black Queen ShaftSilver, Gold, ZincPast Producer1889, 1893
Catalpa MineLead, Copper, Gold, Silver, ZincPast Producer
CatapalaCopper, Zinc, LeadProducerCopper, Lead
Chair Creek TunnelBerylliumPast Producer
Copper King MineSilver, Gold, Lead, ZincOccurrence
Evening StarLead, Silver, CopperOccurrenceReplacement
Gold Pan VeinZinc, Copper, Gold, SilverOccurrenceVein
MilwaukeeLead, Silver, Copper, ZincProducerVein

Every working recorded in Gunnison County

Storms near this place

13 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2006LightningMarble7 hurtno account filed
July 2021Debris FlowMarble$25,000Numerous 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 1999Flash FloodMarble$15,000no account filed
August 2023FloodMarble$5,000Daniels 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 2023Debris FlowMarble$5,000The 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 2022Debris FlowMarble$2,500Multiple 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 1997Flash FloodMarble$2,000no account filed
August 2022Debris FlowMarble$500A minor mudslide occurred on the south side of the Crystal River by Marble as a result of heavy rain from thunderstorms.
August 2022Debris FlowMarble$250A mudslide occurred as a result of heavy rain from thunderstorms near Marble along County Road 3.
June 2024Debris FlowMarble-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 2021Tornado (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 2002FloodMarble-no account filed
August 1999Flash FloodMarble-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gunnison 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Crystal4.7 miles17
Pittsburg10.7 miles27
Elkton11.1 miles27
Patterson Place12.5 miles14
Gothic13.1 miles26
Irwin14.5 miles26
Harry Parker Place14.9 miles14
Ruby15.1 miles26

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 MarbleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q662804The 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.