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Marietta, Kansas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Oketo Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66518. It stands on Bommer Creek. The Survey maps it on the Oketo quadrangle.

Marietta within Marshall County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

9 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Marietta between 2015 and 2020, burning about 16 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Arson/incendiarism3
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
15 April 2020Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
8 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMarshall County99
8 March 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service77
29 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service78
24 March 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresMarshall County101
13 March 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMarshall County100
20 February 2016Arson/incendiarism9.0 acresKansas Forest Service90
3 November 2016Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKansas Forest Service96

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this place

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marietta in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 4 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
July 2020Flash FloodMarietta-Another report of water over several roads with a depth of up to two feet in places.
May 2016Flash FloodMarietta-Water flowing across the roadway near 16th and Deer Train. Approximately 18 inches deep.
July 2015Flash FloodMarietta-Water flowing over Cherokee rd about 6 inches deep.
September 2015Thunderstorm WindMarietta-Large trees down and power outages.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindMarietta-Large tree branches were blown down. Around 5 minutes of strong winds from the west.
April 2010HailMarietta-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindMarietta-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindMarietta-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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
Oketo1.5 miles14
Lone Elm2.7 miles15
Herkimer6.5 miles15
Marysville7.3 miles15
Carden8.1 miles14
Home8.4 miles14
Hermansberg8.5 miles15
Upland8.6 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 472691. 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.

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.