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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Marne, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1966. It stands in Madison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43055. It stands on Bowling Green Run. The Survey maps it on the Hanover quadrangle.

Marne within Licking County

Then and now

1909 to 1966

The same ground, surveyed 57 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Marne, surveyed 1966
Topographic sheet of Marne, surveyed 1909

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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 nearby

12 since 2014

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Marne between 2014 and 2020, burning about 21 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 burning9
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
23 May 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution2.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources12545
5 April 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources842
1 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 March 2014Debris and open burning2.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 February 2019Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources15073
17 February 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources7054
17 February 2017Debris and open burning5.2 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources6866
17 February 2017Debris and open burning3.5 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources6865

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Licking County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 1,243 shown

Museums hold 1,243 specimens collected within 10 miles of Marne between 1853 and 1975: 1,182 Animalia, 43 Fungi, 16 Plantae, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ANGEVINE & SEVER, Adler, K. K., Adler, K. K. & Dennis, D. M. and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Asplenium pinnatifidum Nutt.Asplenium pinnatifidum Nutt.1893Jones, H.L.Toboso
Specimen of Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) RousselAlbugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel1897F.L. Stevens
Specimen of Peronospora alta FuckelPeronospora alta Fuckel1897F.L. Stevens
A photograph of the species Bonasa umbellus, not of this specimenBonasa umbellus (Linnaeus, 1766)1853Mack, D. (Don)Eden Twp, Licking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Pelecanus erythrorhynchos, not of this specimenPelecanus erythrorhynchos Gmelin, 17891874not recordedLicking Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Calidris canutus, not of this specimenCalidris canutus rufa (A.Wilson, 1813)1878Savage, E. (Ed)Buckeye Lake Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Lophodytes cucullatus, not of this specimenLophodytes cucullatus (Linnaeus, 1758)1878not recordedLicking Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Aix sponsa, not of this specimenAix sponsa (Linnaeus, 1758)1880not recordedLicking Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Anas americana, not of this specimenAnas americana J.F.Gmelin, 17891880not recordedBuckeye Lake Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Podiceps auritus, not of this specimenPodiceps auritus (Linnaeus, 1758)1880not recordedLicking, Ohio, USA
Anas acuta Linnaeus, 17581881not recordedBuckeye Lake Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA
Anas clypeata Linnaeus, 17581881not recordedBuckeye Lake Reservoir, Licking, Ohio, USA

All 1,243 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

1 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Marne: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Jones Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Licking County

Storms nearby

3 since 2024

The National Weather Service names Marne in 3 storm reports between 2024 and 2025: 1 tornado, 1 hail, 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 2024Tornado (EF0)Marne$15,000A brief tornado is believed to have occurred near Lesley and Claylick Roads, where a swath of concentrated tree and minor structural damage was observed. The damage was congruent with estimated wind speeds around 80 mph.
July 2025Flash FloodMarne-Water was reported to be flowing across multiple properties, covering driveways, and spilling onto the road behind Licking Valley High School.
April 2025HailMarne-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Licking 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
Ben1.4 miles12
Claylick1.5 miles12
Swans2.2 miles12
Hanover2.6 miles12
Boston4.4 miles11
Wilkins Run4.4 miles11
Toboso4.9 miles11
Newark5.0 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061379. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.