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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.

Marne within Cass County

Population over time

2 figures

Marne 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.

YearPeople Change
2010120
2020110-10 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

10 since 2009

Regional 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
27 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2014Equipment and vehicle use20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 March 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 March 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 October 2012Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

23 since 2000

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2007Flash FloodMarne$75,000A 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 2005Thunderstorm WindMarne$30,000no account filed
May 2001HailMarne$25,000no account filed
August 2000HailMarne$25,000no account filed
June 2013Thunderstorm WindMarne$20,000A camper was blown on its side and large tree limbs ten to twelve inches in diameter were snapped from trees.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindMarne$15,000Trained spotter reported power lines down and debris along Boston rd. This is a delayed report.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindMarne$15,000Delayed report from media in Atlantic of damage to outbuildings west of town.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindMarne$15,000Delayed report from Cass County Public Safety about outbuilding damage, large tree limbs downed and outdoor furniture destroyed.
March 2019FloodMarne$10,000Law enforcement reported an ice jam that resulted in large chunks of ice over the road near Lewis.
June 2014HailMarne$10,000no account filed
June 2014HailMarne$10,000no account filed
July 2023Tornado (EF0)Marne$5,000Damage 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 2000Thunderstorm WindMarne$5,000no account filed
August 2000HailMarne$5,000no account filed
May 2014Thunderstorm WindMarne$2,000Winds estimated at 60 MPH.
June 2024Tornado (EFU)Marne-This tornado was observed by storm chasers and remained in rural cropland. No damage indicators were impacted, hence the EFU rating.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindMarne-Public reported, via social media, multiple large branches down on the road 2 miles west of Marne.
July 2023Tornado (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 2018HailMarne-Public reported quarter sized hail via the mPING application.
August 2018HailMarne-Trained spotter reported a few hail stones quarter in size, along with a lot of pea sized hail.
August 2018HailMarne-Trained spotter reported ping pong ball sized hail.
June 2010FloodMarne-no account filed
August 2000HailMarne-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cass 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
Atlantic6.1 miles9
Sycamore Village6.8 miles9
Lorah8.4 miles9
Grove City (historical)9.1 miles9
Indiantown (historical)9.6 miles10
Lewis10.2 miles10
Wiota12.4 miles9
Norway Center14.6 miles9

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 MarneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1930050The 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.