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Marquette, Nebraska

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Precinct 8. It lies in ZIP code area 68854. The Survey maps it on the Central City West quadrangle. 236 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,818 feet above sea level.

Marquette within Hamilton County

On record in Marquette

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

Marquette grew from 229 to 236 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
2010229
2020236+7 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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

15 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Marquette between 2000 and 2018, burning about 96 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
Debris and open burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use4

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
18 June 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 April 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
2 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
17 April 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
29 March 2018Debris and open burning20 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
15 March 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
10 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hamilton County

Storms near this place

51 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marquette in 51 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 25 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado, 4 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
June 2014Thunderstorm WindMarquette$1,000,000Wind gusts estimated near 70 MPH resulted in damage to area grain bins, outbuildings and irrigation pivots.
June 2014HailMarquette$500,000Trees were stripped of leaves due to the combination of strong wind and quarter size hail. This was the second storm to come through this area. This report was from an NERAIN observer.
October 2001Tornado (F1)Marquette$400,000Tornado crossed from Hamilton County into Polk County.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindMarquette$250,000Wind gusts estimated to be near 70 MPH resulted in some pivot damage in the area.
May 2018HailMarquette$150,000Quarter to golf ball size hail was reported.
December 2021HailMarquette$100,000Wind-driven hail up to the size of golf balls caused significant siding damage to an area home.
October 2023Thunderstorm WindMarquette$80,000An estimated 70 mph wind gust loosened the base of an empty grain bin, destroyed a wood frame outbuilding and caused some tree damage.
June 2022HailMarquette$50,000Hail up to golf ball size was reported in and near Marquette.
June 2022HailMarquette$50,000Quarter to golf ball size hail was reported in Marquette. This was the second hail storm of the evening.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindMarquette$50,000no account filed
May 2003HailMarquette$50,000no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindMarquette$40,000no account filed
August 2020HailMarquette$25,000Hail ranging in size from half dollars to 2 inches in diameter was reported along this path.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindMarquette$25,000Tree limbs were downed in the area.
May 2016Flash FloodMarquette$25,000Training, slow moving thunderstorms with torrential rainfall resulted in flash flooding across northern Hamilton, far southwestern Polk and far north-northwestern York Counties. Hamilton County was the hardest hit, with radar estimates of 5 to 8 inches of rain. Numerous county roads were covered with water and were closed. One home near Marquette in Hamilton County had about 2 feet of water inside and around the house. Animals at the farmstead had to be moved, and witnesses claimed the horses were nearly belly-deep in water at one point. This water moved downstream into Polk and York Counties, causing flooding along the Big Blue River.
August 2011HailMarquette$25,000Hail up to 2 inches in diameter continued for 10 minutes.
October 2001Tornado (F1)Marquette$25,000Tornado crossed from Hamilton County into Merrick County.
August 2020HailMarquette$25,000no account filed
October 2001Tornado (F0)Marquette$15,000Small weak tornado crossed over Marquette but caused little damage in town.
May 2016HailMarquette$15,000no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindMarquette$10,000Thunderstorms remained nearly stationarrowy over northeast Hamilton County for three hours. Winds occasionally gusted to nearly 60 mph. The winds damaged three hog shelters south of Hordville and two more at Marquette. A tree and two power poles were snapped. The wind, in combination with small hail and extremely heavy rain, caused damage to the corn and soybean crops. Rainfall totaled seven inches, resulting in lowland flooding.
September 2006HailMarquette$10,000no account filed
September 2000HailMarquette$10,000no account filed
September 2000HailMarquette$10,000no account filed
July 2023Thunderstorm WindMarquette$5,000Wind gusts estimated to be near 65 MPH resulted in some minor tree damage in the area. A street light was damaged in Marquette and a power pole was damaged near the Aurora Airport.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindMarquette$5,000Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH resulted in tree damage in Marquette.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindMarquette-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH. The combination of wind and heavy rain resulted in near-zero visibility.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindMarquette-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH in Marquette.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindMarquette-A wind gust of 59 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located four miles south of Marquette.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindMarquette-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH.
August 2017Heavy RainMarquette-A 24-hour precipitation amount of 5.05 inches was recorded 4 miles south of Marquette.
August 2017Heavy RainMarquette-A 24-hour precipitation amount of 4.52 inches was recorded 1 mile southeast of Marquette.
May 2016Heavy RainMarquette-Storm total rainfall report was 6.50 inches.
May 2016Heavy RainMarquette-Storm total rainfall report was 6.77 inches.
June 2014HailMarquette-Nickel to quarter size hail was reported from an NeRAIN observer.
June 2003Tornado (F0)Marquette-A brief tornado reported by storm chasers.
May 1994Tornado (F0)Marquette-A small tornado briefly touched down west of Marquette.
May 2024HailMarquette-no account filed
June 2020HailMarquette-no account filed
August 2018HailMarquette-no account filed
May 2016HailMarquette-no account filed
September 2015HailMarquette-no account filed
July 2014HailMarquette-no account filed
April 2013HailMarquette-no account filed
January 2011FloodMarquette-no account filed
August 2011HailMarquette-no account filed
June 2009HailMarquette-no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindMarquette-no account filed
August 2005HailMarquette-no account filed
October 2001HailMarquette-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindMarquette-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hamilton 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
Kronborg3.7 miles14
Overland5.3 miles14
Hordville8.3 miles14
Aurora9.4 miles13
Murphy10.1 miles12
Hampton10.8 miles15
Phillips13.1 miles12
Giltner17.6 miles12

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 MarquetteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2719558The 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 831058. 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.