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Marion, Michigan

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Marion Township. It lies in ZIP code area 49665. The Survey maps it on the Marion quadrangle. 789 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,099 feet above sea level.

Marion within Osceola County

Population over time

2 figures

Marion fell from 872 to 789 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
2010872
2020789-83 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

31 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Marion between 1993 and 2020, burning about 75 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning13
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
25 August 2013Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOSCEOLA 08
14 August 2004Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 August 2004Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 August 2004Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 August 2004Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 August 2004Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 August 2004Railroad operations and maintenance1.5 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMARION COMMUNITY FD 114 - 2020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Osceola County

Storms near this place

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marion in 9 storm reports between 1994 and 2014: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flood. 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 2014FloodMarion$3,000,000Osceola central dispatch reported flooding along Muskegon River and also that several roadways were flooded and closed. Severe flooding was reported along the Muskegon River near Evart and Governor Snyder declared a state of disaster for Osceola county.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindMarion$25,000no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindMarion$15,000Numerous twelve to fourteen inch diameter trees were blown down in the city of Marion.
April 2001HailMarion$10,000no account filed
November 2001Thunderstorm WindMarion$2,000no account filed
July 2012Thunderstorm WindMarion-Law enforcement reported numerous trees and power lines down near Marion.
September 1998Thunderstorm WindMarion-Wind damage to large trees.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindMarion-Several large trees were blown down in a small area along M115 northwest of Marion.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindMarion-Trees were downed by the winds in a small area south of Marion.

Every storm recorded in Osceola 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
Pisgah Heights4.2 miles11
Park Lake4.3 miles11
Highland7.0 miles13
Avondale7.3 miles11
Ina7.5 miles13
Dighton10.5 miles13
Sears14.2 miles12
Evart15.1 miles13

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 Q2005484The 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 631557. 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.