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Marion, Kansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Centre Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66861. It stands on Mud Creek. The Survey maps it on the Marion quadrangle. 1,922 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,312 feet above sea level.

Marion within Marion County

On record in Marion

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 6 records

Population over time

2 figures

Marion fell from 1,927 to 1,922 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
20101,927
20201,922-5 (-0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Marion between 2015 and 2020, burning about 964 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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/undetermined7
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1

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
10 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service35
6 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service17
4 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined250 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
18 March 2017Equipment and vehicle use30 acresMarion County22
17 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service26
13 March 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service22
12 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMarion County18
12 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreMarion County19

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

60 of 67 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marion in 67 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 30 hail, 24 thunderstorm wind, 5 flood, 4 tornado. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 1994Thunderstorm WindMarion2 hurtno account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindMarion$100,000Minor damage sustained to boats and docks at Glen Elder Lake Marina, widespread tree damage, power lines downed.
May 2009FloodMarion$50,000Main street in Marion was flooded for a short time. Numerous county roads were flooded.
May 1999Tornado (F1)Marion$50,000Initial touchdown occurred over eastern Marion Reservoir at approximately 1535. Moving northeast at 30 kts, the tornado passed near Lincolnville and then just to the east of Lost Springs where it crossed into southwest Morris County. Extensive damage was inflicted upon one home just southeast of Lost Springs where the garage was destroyed and part of roof was lost.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindMarion$20,000A powerful thunderstorm produced widespread tree and some structural damage in and around the town of Marion. In Marion, the roof of a metal building was blown off, causing additional damage to nearby cars and businesses. Also, a roof on a building near the city's water tower was blown off. Information courtesy of the Marion County Record newspaper.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindMarion$10,000Power poles and power lines were blown down.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindMarion$7,500One fourth of a barns roof was blown off.
September 2015Thunderstorm WindMarion$3,000Tree limbs were reported down in town. Some minor awning damage occurred to a house. Reported via Kake TV on Twitter.
November 2005Tornado (F0)Marion$500Landspout tornado. Cosmetic damage to outbuildings
June 1994HailMarion$50no account filed
April 2026HailMarion-The report was an image relayed from emergency management. This was a delayed report with the time estimated via radar.
March 2026HailMarion-This report was relayed via emergency management.
April 2026HailMarion-The report was received via mPing.
April 2026HailMarion-The largest hailstone was baseball size, although dime to tennis ball size hailstones fell for 10 minutes.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindMarion-Picture sent via social media of a couple of 4-inch tree limbs down in Marion.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindMarion-Emergency manager had a measured wind gust of 59.7 (60 mph) in Marion.
June 2024FloodMarion-Significant flooding over the roadway both north and south of the intersection of Remington Road and 230th Street.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindMarion-Emergency manager estimated wind gusts around 60 mph.
August 2024HailMarion-The report of quarter-sized hail was relayed by emergency management.
September 2024Thunderstorm WindMarion-Law enforcement reported a large metal dumpster was moved and flipped onto a road. Winds were estimated to be around 60 to 65 mph at time.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindMarion-A trained spotter estimated 50 to 60 mph wind with pea sized hail.
August 2023Heavy RainMarion-Rainfall in the past 24hours of 2.41 inches.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindMarion-There was an estimated six-inch tree branches down at the Marion County Courthouse.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindMarion-There was a report of a roof partially blown off at the municipal airport in Marion.
September 2023FloodMarion-Emergency manager reports street flooding in the city of Marion.
May 2022HailMarion-A public report was relayed from the broadcast media.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindMarion-This was an estimated wind gust.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindMarion-Damage occurred to power poles and lines.
April 2020HailMarion-Picture sent in via Facebook.
April 2020HailMarion-Picture sent in via Twitter.
March 2019HailMarion-A picture was submitted via Facebook. The hail was estimated to be barely larger than quarters. The time of the event was estimated based on radar.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindMarion-No damage was reported.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindMarion-A delayed report was received from an employee with The Marion County Record of wind damage across Marion County. The worst damage occurred across the northern half of Marion County; most of it to trees and power lines. Some of the trees were large but there were no specifics as to their diameters. Most of the town of Marion was reported with no power after the storm.
May 2018HailMarion-The public reported nickel to quarter sized hail.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindMarion-Six to eight in tree limbs were reported down in town. Also some sporadic power outages were noted.
March 2017FloodMarion-Remington Road was flooded in and around 230th Street.
May 2015Heavy RainMarion-Reports of minor street flooding were noted in Marion and other locations across the county. Rain reports around 3 inches were noted in Marion.
July 2013FloodMarion-Heavy rains caused street flooding.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindMarion-A trained spotter estimated the gust.
June 2005Flash FloodMarion-Widespread flooding across the county with several county roads closed.
November 2005Tornado (F0)Marion-Brief touchdown.
November 2005Tornado (F0)Marion-Landspout tornado. Remained over open country.
September 1999Thunderstorm WindMarion-Numerous trees and power lines blown down.
June 1997Flash FloodMarion-MUD CREEK FLOODED OLD HWY 56
April 2026HailMarion-no account filed
April 2026HailMarion-no account filed
April 2026HailMarion-no account filed
May 2023HailMarion-no account filed
April 2020HailMarion-no account filed
March 2019HailMarion-no account filed
April 2011HailMarion-no account filed
June 2008HailMarion-no account filed
April 2008HailMarion-no account filed
May 2007HailMarion-no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindMarion-no account filed
May 2004HailMarion-no account filed
July 2003HailMarion-no account filed
April 2002HailMarion-no account filed
May 2002HailMarion-no account filed
June 2002HailMarion-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Eastshore3.8 miles15
Oursler4.4 miles14
Canada5.1 miles15
Aulne5.9 miles15
Antelope6.5 miles12
Pilsen8.6 miles15
Florence8.6 miles13
Hillsboro9.9 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 MarionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2232382The 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 477366. 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.