BlockMarston, Illinois
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Duncan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61231. The Survey maps it on the Buffalo Prairie quadrangle. It stands 781 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 14 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.
- 1916 USGS Edgington quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1938 USGS Edgington quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Buffalo Prairie quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Edgington quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Aledo quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Aledo quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Buffalo Prairie quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
1,114 words on this townshipPast and Present of Mercer County, Illinois, published 1914 names this settlement in its chapter on Duncan Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
At a later date J. A. Downey and Charles Epperly conducted the store at Marston. At one time this little village seemed quite promising. It had a brass band, a large general store, a physician, blacksmith and a few other institutions, but in recent years it has usually had nothing except one store, a blacksmith, a school and a church.
Passage source: Past and Present of Mercer County, Illinois, published 1914.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Storms near this place
5 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marston in 5 storm reports between 2012 and 2023: 3 hail, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marston | - | Powerlines were downed by strong thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| December 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Marston | - | An EF-0 tornado with estimated peak winds of 75 mph, began in rural Mercer County Illinois and was on the ground for 1.2 miles before continuing into Rock Island County for another 9.6 miles. The tornado snapped 6 to 10 inch tree branches along its path. There was no structural damage visible along the tornado track. |
| April 2014 | Hail | Marston | - | A trained spotter reported quarter to golf ball sized hail. The hail lasted for 10 minutes and the report was delayed. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Marston | - | Spotter reported hail was mostly penny sized with quarter sized mixed in. Time of the event was estimated from radar due to a delayed report. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Marston | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hamlet | 3.6 miles | 18 | |
| Millersburg | 4.6 miles | 15 | |
| Gingle Corners | 4.6 miles | 18 | |
| Sugar Grove | 6.2 miles | 12 | |
| Petersville | 7.5 miles | 15 | |
| Aledo | 7.9 miles | 12 | |
| Joy | 8.7 miles | 15 | |
| Eliza | 8.8 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 Marston | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6773986 | 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 425824. 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.
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.