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Marrowbone, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Burkesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42717. It lies near White Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Dubre quadrangle. 147 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 643 feet above sea level.

Marrowbone within Cumberland County

On record in Marrowbone

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Marrowbone fell from 217 to 147 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
2010217
2020147-70 (-32%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

43 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Marrowbone between 1998 and 2020, burning about 2,336 acres in total. None started naturally. 15 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/incendiarism15
Debris and open burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
29 September 2007Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 August 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 April 1999Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 March 2000Arson/incendiarism45 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2000Arson/incendiarism156 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2002Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 March 2009Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cumberland County

Storms near this place

13 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marrowbone in 13 storm reports between 2003 and 2026: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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
April 2017Thunderstorm WindMarrowbone$15,000The Cumberland County emergency manager reported a building wall collapsed due to severe thunderstorm winds.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindMarrowbone$1,000A large tree limb was blown on to a car.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindMarrowbone$1,000A swing set was blown over and tree branches were downed.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindMarrowbone-A tree was blown down over part of Mud Camp Road.
February 2021Flash FloodMarrowbone-There was flooding on Gray Gap Road at Turner Branch Road.
May 2021Flash FloodMarrowbone-Kentucky 90 was closed due to flooding around Marrowbone.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindMarrowbone-A Cumberland County law enforcement official reported trees down in the area.
May 2010FloodMarrowbone-Kentucky 90 was closed due to high water.
July 2009Heavy RainMarrowbone-A NWS COOP-Observer measured one inch of rain in 30 minutes.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindMarrowbone-Many tree branches were downed at Marrowbone. COOP Observer estimated wind speeds of 55 to 60 mph.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindMarrowbone-Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees.
March 2004Flash FloodMarrowbone-Three county roads were closed in the area due to high water.
February 2009HailMarrowbone-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cumberland 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
Casey Fork2.1 miles8
Waterview2.7 miles8
Dubre2.9 miles8
Leslie4.4 miles8
Grider4.6 miles8
Cloyds Landing5.1 miles8
Sugar Grove (historical)5.3 miles8
Arat5.4 miles8

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 MarrowboneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6773032The 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 497558. 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.