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Marsing, Idaho

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Marsing census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83639. The Survey maps it on the Marsing quadrangle. 1,229 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,297 feet above sea level.

Marsing within Owyhee County

Population over time

2 figures

Marsing grew from 1,031 to 1,229 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
20101,031
20201,229+198 (+19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

16 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Marsing between 1994 and 2016, burning about 326 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use2
Fireworks2
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning1

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
9 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresBoise DistrictBURNTBLANK
10 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresBoise DistrictCLARKS
21 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresBoise DistrictCENTRLCOVE
5 July 1994Fireworksunder an acreDeer Flat National Wildlife RefugeSEVEN
4 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDeer Flat National Wildlife RefugeDAM
28 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use66 acresBoise DistrictMM4 HWY78
2 July 1994Fireworksunder an acreDeer Flat National Wildlife RefugeLAUNCHER
12 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBoise DistrictRIVERSIDE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Owyhee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Marsing: 12 unknowns, 3 past producers, 3 producers, 2 occurrences. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Volcanic Materials, REE, Gemstone, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Marsing ClayClayProducer
Rock Tepe MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Twin Buttes GroupREE, Gemstone, Gypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Cinder DepositVolcanic MaterialsProspectCinders
Cinder DepositVolcanic MaterialsOccurrence
Cinder DepositVolcanic MaterialsOccurrence
Cinder PitVolcanic MaterialsUnknown
Cinder PitVolcanic MaterialsUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Owyhee County

Storms near this place

1 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marsing in 1 storm report in 2006: 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
June 2006HailMarsing-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Owyhee 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
Claytonia1.8 miles13
Sands (historical)6.7 miles13
Homedale8.1 miles12
Givens Hot Springs10.0 miles14
Owyhee Heights10.9 miles12
Wilson15.3 miles14
Rockville17.2 miles6
Guffey22.2 miles15

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 MarsingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1518312The 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 396853. 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.