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Marion, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Schertz-Cibolo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78124. The Survey maps it on the Marion quadrangle. 1,034 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 646 feet above sea level.

Marion within Guadalupe County

Population over time

3 figures

Marion fell from 1,099 to 1,034 between 2000 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
20001,099
20101,066-33 (-3%)
20201,034-32 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

86 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Marion between 2005 and 2018, burning about 808 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined47
Equipment and vehicle use15
Debris and open burning14
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1

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 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLOWER SEGUIN
26 September 2011Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSCHWAB ROAD
16 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service6000 FM78
13 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWESTON
12 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCODY
10 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWEIL ROAD
3 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
29 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSUNFIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Guadalupe 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 Marion: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
FraserClayUnknown

Every working recorded in Guadalupe County

Storms near this place

9 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marion in 9 storm reports between 1993 and 2017: 5 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 death. 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
March 2017Flash FloodMarion1 killedHeavy rain during the evening of March 9 caused Santa Clara Creek to flood a low water crossing on the I-10 access road near exit 599. A car was swept off the road and a woman passenger was killed.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindMarion$80,000The bow-shaped line along the Comal-Bexar-Wilson line moved into Hays and Guadalupe Counties near midnight, continuing to produce widespread wind gusts of 40 to 50 knots, with spotty higher gusts near 70 knots. Most of the damage in Guadalupe County consisted of trees that had been blown over.
February 2009HailMarion-A resident reported nickel size hail.
April 2007Flash FloodMarion-Thunderstorms over Guadalupe County produced general 1 to 2 inch totals with amounts of up to 3 inches near Seguin. Flash flooding closed FM78 and FM467 through the early afternoon.
August 2007Flash FloodMarion-Showers and thunderstorms associated with Erin produced general 2 to 3 inch amounts across Guadalupe County with up to 4 inches in the Cibolo area. Flash flooding closed FM78 and FM3009 briefly during the late afternoon.
January 1993HailMarion-Trees and power lines were downed on highway 47.
March 2009HailMarion-no account filed
April 2002HailMarion-no account filed
February 1998HailMarion-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Guadalupe 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
Hilda Siding3.9 miles14
Haeckerville4.1 miles14
Santa Clara4.2 miles14
Cibolo4.6 miles14
Muehlsville5.3 miles14
Northcliff5.6 miles14
Nolte5.8 miles14
McQueeney5.8 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 MarionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q977940The 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 1340958. 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.