Marne, Iowa
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Brighton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51552. The Survey maps it on the Atlantic quadrangle. 110 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,266 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMarne fell from 120 to 110 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 | 120 | |
| 2020 | 110 | -10 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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.
- 1954 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS Atlantic quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
10 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Marne between 2009 and 2017, burning about 36 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 April 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 March 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 18 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 October 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
23 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marne in 23 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 9 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2007 | Flash Flood | Marne | $75,000 | A foot of water was reported in the basement of a residence. Rainfall of 3.26 inches was measured since 530 PM, and 1.85 inches in last 55 minutes. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marne | $30,000 | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Marne | $25,000 | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Marne | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marne | $20,000 | A camper was blown on its side and large tree limbs ten to twelve inches in diameter were snapped from trees. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marne | $15,000 | Trained spotter reported power lines down and debris along Boston rd. This is a delayed report. |
| April 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marne | $15,000 | Delayed report from media in Atlantic of damage to outbuildings west of town. |
| April 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marne | $15,000 | Delayed report from Cass County Public Safety about outbuilding damage, large tree limbs downed and outdoor furniture destroyed. |
| March 2019 | Flood | Marne | $10,000 | Law enforcement reported an ice jam that resulted in large chunks of ice over the road near Lewis. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Marne | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Marne | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Tornado (EF0) | Marne | $5,000 | Damage from this tornado was relayed by the Cass County Emergency Manager and the path was also found in high resolution satellite imagery. Some minor damage to trees and outbuildings occurred at one farmstead east of Marne with the remainder of the path through open cropland. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marne | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Marne | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marne | $2,000 | Winds estimated at 60 MPH. |
| June 2024 | Tornado (EFU) | Marne | - | This tornado was observed by storm chasers and remained in rural cropland. No damage indicators were impacted, hence the EFU rating. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marne | - | Public reported, via social media, multiple large branches down on the road 2 miles west of Marne. |
| July 2023 | Tornado (EF0) | Marne | - | Tornado was indicated by a Correlation Coefficient depression on radar and also verified through high resolution satellite imagery north of Marne. The tornado remained in mostly open cropland although some EF0 tree damage was done to a tree line along the edge of one of the fields. |
| May 2018 | Hail | Marne | - | Public reported quarter sized hail via the mPING application. |
| August 2018 | Hail | Marne | - | Trained spotter reported a few hail stones quarter in size, along with a lot of pea sized hail. |
| August 2018 | Hail | Marne | - | Trained spotter reported ping pong ball sized hail. |
| June 2010 | Flood | Marne | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Marne | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atlantic | 6.1 miles | 9 | |
| Sycamore Village | 6.8 miles | 9 | |
| Lorah | 8.4 miles | 9 | |
| Grove City (historical) | 9.1 miles | 9 | |
| Indiantown (historical) | 9.6 miles | 10 | |
| Lewis | 10.2 miles | 10 | |
| Wiota | 12.4 miles | 9 | |
| Norway Center | 14.6 miles | 9 |
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 Marne | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1930050 | 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 458815. 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.
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.




