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Marietta, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Marietta-Douglassville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75566. It stands on Floyd Creek. The Survey maps it on the Marietta quadrangle. 115 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 351 feet above sea level.

Marietta within Cass County

Population over time

2 figures

Marietta fell from 134 to 115 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
2010134
2020115-19 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

290 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 290 fires within 5 miles of Marietta between 1993 and 2020, burning about 2,305 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 45 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
Debris and open burning166
Arson/incendiarism45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined37
Natural16
Power generation/transmission/distribution12
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1

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
9 September 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 6235
9 September 1996Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 September 1993Arson/incendiarism50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOPOHAN GRASS FIRE
3 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHUGH MEADOWS FIRE
3 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLINDEN - 352
29 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWRIGHT PASTURE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Marietta: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silica, 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
UnknownSilica, ClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marietta in 8 storm reports between 1994 and 2011: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 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
April 2000Tornado (F2)Marietta$250,000Tornado developed in a high precipitation supercell as it moved east across the county. This tornado was one of several that occurred. Tornado tracked eastward along Hwy 77 and crossed through downtown Douglassville at Hwy 8 then continued east into the woods before lifting. Several homes, mobile homes, and businesses were damaged including the Post Office.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindMarietta$5,000Trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindMarietta-Trees were downed near the town of Marietta, Texas.
March 2004Thunderstorm WindMarietta-Trees downed.
December 1999Tornado (F0)Marietta-Tornado occurred in rural wooded area. Damage consisted of leaf stripped trees and broken branches.
April 1996HailMarietta-no account filed
September 1996Thunderstorm WindMarietta-no account filed
April 1995HailMarietta-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cass 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
Nickleberry2.2 miles11
Bethlehem2.3 miles11
Cornett3.5 miles11
Dalton3.6 miles11
Cusseta4.6 miles11
Bryans Mill4.9 miles11
Almira7.2 miles10
Carterville8.1 miles10

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 MariettaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q976351The 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 1340954. 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.