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.
Population over time
2 figuresMarsing 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,031 | |
| 2020 | 1,229 | +198 (+19%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1898 USGS Nampa quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Boise quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Boise quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Marsing quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Boise quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Boise quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
16 since 1994Regional 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/undetermined | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Boise District | BURNTBLANK |
| 10 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Boise District | CLARKS |
| 21 August 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 35 acres | Boise District | CENTRLCOVE |
| 5 July 1994 | Fireworks | under an acre | Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge | SEVEN |
| 4 July 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge | DAM |
| 28 July 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 66 acres | Boise District | MM4 HWY78 |
| 2 July 1994 | Fireworks | under an acre | Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge | LAUNCHER |
| 12 July 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Boise District | RIVERSIDE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 21 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marsing Clay | Clay | Producer | ||
| Rock Tepe Mine | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Twin Buttes Group | REE, Gemstone, Gypsum-Anhydrite | Past Producer | ||
| Cinder Deposit | Volcanic Materials | Prospect | Cinders | |
| Cinder Deposit | Volcanic Materials | Occurrence | ||
| Cinder Deposit | Volcanic Materials | Occurrence | ||
| Cinder Pit | Volcanic Materials | Unknown | ||
| Cinder Pit | Volcanic Materials | Unknown | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown |
Storms near this place
1 since 2006Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2006 | Hail | Marsing | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claytonia | 1.8 miles | 13 | |
| Sands (historical) | 6.7 miles | 13 | |
| Homedale | 8.1 miles | 12 | |
| Givens Hot Springs | 10.0 miles | 14 | |
| Owyhee Heights | 10.9 miles | 12 | |
| Wilson | 15.3 miles | 14 | |
| Rockville | 17.2 miles | 6 | |
| Guffey | 22.2 miles | 15 |
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 Marsing | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1518312 | 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 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.





