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Marble, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Greenway Township. It lies in ZIP code area 55764. The Survey maps it on the Calumet quadrangle. 610 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,417 feet above sea level.

Marble within Itasca County

On record in Marble

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

Marble fell from 701 to 610 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
2010701
2020610-91 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

141 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Marble between 1992 and 2020, burning about 956 acres in total. None started naturally. 96 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/incendiarism96
Debris and open burning27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
30 September 2012Arson/incendiarism3.8 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 July 2001Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 June 2002Arson/incendiarism11 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 June 2003Debris and open burning8.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 June 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 2013Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 2008Arson/incendiarism2.8 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Itasca County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 80 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 80 workings within 5 miles of Marble: 51 past producers, 17 producers, 12 prospects. 17 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Water, Free, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Aluminum, Iron, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
ArcturusIron, SilicaProducer1917
Holman-Cliffs MineIron, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free, AluminumPast Producer1907
Patrick-Ann MineIron, Aluminum, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, FreePast Producer1917
Homestead 0-68 ReserveAluminum, Iron, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, FreeProspect
West Diamond ReserveAluminum, Iron, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, FreeProspect
Delaware #1 & #2Iron, Water, FreePast Producer1913
Hill Lake Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Magnetic Taconite Mesabi Range 23wIron, Water, FreeProspectSurface
Plummer GroupIron, Water, FreePast Producer1954
Plummer Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Itasca County

Storms near this place

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marble in 5 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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
June 2022Thunderstorm WindMarble-Ten mid-sized pine and spruce were downed partially across a county road.
August 2020Flash FloodMarble-A culvert was washed out on County Road 69 near Birch Drive south of Marble leading to the closure of CR 69.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindMarble-Spruce trees were blown down onto power lines.
August 2003HailMarble-no account filed
July 1999HailMarble-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Itasca 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
Silverwood0.6 miles10
Calumet1.2 miles10
Cort2.9 miles11
Jurgenson3.7 miles11
Holman3.9 miles10
Taconite4.5 miles12
Pengilly5.4 miles11
Kevin5.9 miles11

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 MarbleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2177962The 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 657313. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, 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.