Marston, Missouri

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1985. It stands in La Font Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63866. The Survey maps it on the New Madrid quadrangle. 397 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 292 feet above sea level.

Marston within New Madrid County

Population over time

2 figures

Marston fell from 503 to 397 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.

Year	People	Change
2010	503
2020	397	-106 (-21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1939 USGS New Madrid quadrangle1:62500
1951 USGS New Madrid SE quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1954 USGS New Madrid quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Dyersburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1971 USGS New Madrid quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1973 USGS New Madrid quadrangle1:62500
1985 USGS Sikeston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Marston: 10 past producers, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Aluminum, Contained or Metal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
New Madrid	Aluminum, Contained or Metal	Plant
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in New Madrid County

Storms near this place

9 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marston in 9 storm reports between 1995 and 2019: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Marston	$30,000	Cotton trailers were blown across Highway 61. One trailer's roof was shifted.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Marston	$25,000	A billboard sign and its support tower was blown over at a Pilot truck stop at exit 40 on Interstate 55. A semi tractor-trailer rig was blown over on its side on the exit 40 ramp.
January 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Marston	$25,000	A camper trailer was overturned. The roof was blown off a mobile home. A shed was destroyed.
September 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Marston	$25,000	Ten homes in Portageville received minor wind damage. In Marston, there were a number of downed power lines, along with a power pole.
February 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Marston	$6,000	Power lines were blown down at Marston. A few power poles were blown over between Matthews and Sikeston.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Marston	$2,000	Tree limbs were down. A wind gust to 62 mph was measured by the general public.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Marston	$2,000	Large tree limbs were blown down in Lilbourn, including one that punctured a roof. In Marston, a wind gust was estimated near 60 MPH by the general public.
April 2003	Hail	Marston	$2,000	no account filed
February 1997	Hail	Marston	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in New Madrid 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Conran	3.0 miles	11
Howardville	3.5 miles	15
Point Pleasant	5.0 miles	11
Lilbourn	5.1 miles	15
Jaywye	5.3 miles	11
North Lilbourn	5.7 miles	15
Sky	5.9 miles	11
Cody (historical)	6.3 miles	15

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 Marston	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q964940	The 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 721910. 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.

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.