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Marquette, Iowa

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Mendon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52158. It stands on Bloody Run. The Survey maps it on the Prairie du Chien quadrangle. 429 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 627 feet above sea level.

Marquette within Clayton County

Population over time

2 figures

Marquette grew from 375 to 429 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
2010375
2020429+54 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

45 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Marquette between 1992 and 2018, burning about 48 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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
Debris and open burning13
Equipment and vehicle use10
Arson/incendiarism6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1
Other causes1

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
6 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 August 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHORSE CAMP FIRE
29 August 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 June 1992Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clayton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Marquette: 5 unknowns, 4 producers, 2 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
Own CrewsStoneUnknown
Own CrewsStoneUnknown
Lakeside Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Prairie Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pretitti PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Quality Sand & Gravel Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Marquette QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Mcgregor QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown

Every working recorded in Clayton County

Storms near this place

11 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marquette in 11 storm reports between 2010 and 2022: 3 flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
March 2019FloodMarquette$2,030,000Flooding occurred across parts of Clayton County from the combination of rainfall and melting snow. An ice jam on the Turkey River caused flooding to occur near Millville with water going over U.S. Highway 52 and a restaurant sustained major damage. Near the mouth of the Turkey River, the ice jam took out a railroad bridge. Flooding along the Turkey River also occurred in the Osterdock.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindMarquette$50,000Hundreds of trees were blown down in Pikes Peak State Park and Effigy Mounds National Monument near Marquette. Some of the trees fell on vehicles in the two parks.
September 2019Flash FloodMarquette$30,000Runoff from heavy rain turned the streets of Marquette and McGregor into mini-rivers leaving behind mud covered streets and sidewalks. Water also got into the basements of some downtown businesses. Bloody Run county park was closed because of flooding along Bloody Run Creek.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindMarquette$3,000Trees were blown down between Marquette and McGregor with at least one of these trees going down on a power line. Other trees were blown down just north of Marquette on to State Highway 76.
September 2018Flash FloodMarquette$2,000Runoff from heavy rain caused a mudslide to occur along State Highway 76 north of Marquette.
September 2018Flash FloodMarquette$2,000Locally heavy rains caused a mudslide to occur near McGregor and a campground had to be evacuated.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindMarquette$1,000A tree was blown down on State Highway 76 between Marquette and Effigy Mounds National Monument.
July 2022Heavy RainMarquette-Just outside of Marquette, 3.5 inches of rain fell.
September 2012HailMarquette-Golf ball sized hail fell in Marquette.
September 2010FloodMarquette-Heavy rains in the middle part of September across parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin produced flooding along the Mississippi River at McGregor. The river exceeded the flood stage from September 28th through the remainder of the month, but did not crest until early October.
October 2010FloodMarquette-Flooding that began along the Mississippi River at McGregor in late September continued into October before ending during the first part of the month. The river exceeded the flood stage from the first of the month through the 10th and crested almost three and a half feet above the flood stage at 19.43 feet.

Every storm recorded in Clayton 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
McGregor Heights0.7 miles20
West Yards1.2 miles20
McGregor1.8 miles20
Giard Station (historical)4.8 miles13
Giard6.5 miles13
Beulah7.0 miles13
Froelich8.0 miles13
Watson8.3 miles13

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 MarquetteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q581365The 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 458816. 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.