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.
Population over time
2 figuresMarquette 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 375 | |
| 2020 | 429 | +54 (+14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 20 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.
- 1903 USGS Waukon quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1929 USGS Prairie Du Chien quadrangle1:62500
- 1932 USGS Prairie Du Chien quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Prairie Du Chien quadrangle1:62500
- 1976 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Prairie Du Chien quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Decorah quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
45 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 13 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 30 August 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | HORSE CAMP FIRE |
| 29 August 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 25 June 1992 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 May 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 May 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 May 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 11 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Own Crews | Stone | Unknown | ||
| Own Crews | Stone | Unknown | ||
| Lakeside Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Prairie Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Pretitti Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Quality Sand & Gravel Pit & Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Marquette Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| Mcgregor Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown |
Storms near this place
11 since 2010Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2019 | Flood | Marquette | $2,030,000 | Flooding 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 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marquette | $50,000 | Hundreds 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 2019 | Flash Flood | Marquette | $30,000 | Runoff 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 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marquette | $3,000 | Trees 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 2018 | Flash Flood | Marquette | $2,000 | Runoff from heavy rain caused a mudslide to occur along State Highway 76 north of Marquette. |
| September 2018 | Flash Flood | Marquette | $2,000 | Locally heavy rains caused a mudslide to occur near McGregor and a campground had to be evacuated. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marquette | $1,000 | A tree was blown down on State Highway 76 between Marquette and Effigy Mounds National Monument. |
| July 2022 | Heavy Rain | Marquette | - | Just outside of Marquette, 3.5 inches of rain fell. |
| September 2012 | Hail | Marquette | - | Golf ball sized hail fell in Marquette. |
| September 2010 | Flood | Marquette | - | 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 2010 | Flood | Marquette | - | 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. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| McGregor Heights | 0.7 miles | 20 | |
| West Yards | 1.2 miles | 20 | |
| McGregor | 1.8 miles | 20 | |
| Giard Station (historical) | 4.8 miles | 13 | |
| Giard | 6.5 miles | 13 | |
| Beulah | 7.0 miles | 13 | |
| Froelich | 8.0 miles | 13 | |
| Watson | 8.3 miles | 13 |
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 Marquette | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q581365 | 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 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.









