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Marble City, Oklahoma

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Sallisaw North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74945. It lies near Payne Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Marble City quadrangle. 186 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 646 feet above sea level.

Marble City within Sequoyah County

On record in Marble City

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 2 records

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Marble City fell from 263 to 186 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
2010263
2020186-77 (-29%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

514 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 514 fires within 5 miles of Marble City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 15,715 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 198 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/incendiarism198
Missing data/not specified/undetermined172
Debris and open burning72
Equipment and vehicle use17
Recreation and ceremony15
Smoking13
Natural11
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Railroad operations and maintenance7

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
7 September 2000Arson/incendiarism9.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 1998Debris and open burning4.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarism20 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenance7.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2002Debris and open burning4.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2002Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2004Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresOklahoma Division of Forestry30529

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sequoyah County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Marble City: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
Unknown Shale PitClayPast Producer
Marble City Mine #2 & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unknown Limestone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sequoyah County

Storms near this place

24 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marble City in 24 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 13 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 2009Thunderstorm WindMarble City$10,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew a tree down onto a home.
May 2006HailMarble City$10,000no account filed
July 2022Thunderstorm WindMarble City$5,000Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees and power poles.
May 2010Tornado (EF1)Marble City$5,000A tornado snapped or uprooted numerous trees, and blew down power poles. The estimated peak wind in the tornado based on this damage was 105 mph.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindMarble City$1,000Numerous trees were blown down
May 2013Thunderstorm WindMarble City-Several trees were blown down by strong thunderstorm winds.
March 2006Thunderstorm WindMarble City-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down some trees.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindMarble City-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down numerous tree near the Marble City area.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindMarble City-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindMarble City-60 mile an hour thunderstorm winds blew down large tree limbs.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindMarble City-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down large tree limbs.
June 1998HailMarble City-Summary: an elevated thunderstorm rooted above a cap of warm air in the mid-levels of the atmosphere, briefly strengthened to severe levels while moving across Sequoyah County on the morning of June 18, producing dime-sized hail.
September 1998Flash FloodMarble City-Little Sallisaw Creek north of Marble City overflowed a low-water crossing.
March 2017HailMarble City-no account filed
April 2011HailMarble City-no account filed
August 2009HailMarble City-no account filed
December 2008HailMarble City-no account filed
May 2008HailMarble City-no account filed
May 2008HailMarble City-no account filed
May 2006HailMarble City-no account filed
April 2004HailMarble City-no account filed
March 2002HailMarble City-no account filed
April 1999HailMarble City-no account filed
April 1996HailMarble City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sequoyah 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
Dwight Mission2.8 miles17
Flute Springs2.8 miles17
Pinhook Corner4.6 miles20
Brushy5.3 miles18
Evening Shade6.5 miles20
McKey7.5 miles16
Box8.2 miles20
Seven Oaks8.3 miles14

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 Marble CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1932242The 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 1095134. 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.