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Marble, Washington

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Kettle Falls census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99157. It stands on Rattlesnake Creek. The Survey maps it on the China Bend quadrangle. It stands 1,473 feet above sea level.

Marble within Stevens County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

110 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 110 fires within 5 miles of Marble between 1992 and 2020, burning about 406 acres in total. 48 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
Natural48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Power generation/transmission/distribution12
Debris and open burning11
Recreation and ceremony7
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Other causes4
Smoking2
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 2012Naturalunder an acreColville National ForestCHILLY FLAGSTAFF
8 September 2009Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters25 SHOCK SPOTS
4 September 2003Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
4 September 1995Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
4 September 1995Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
4 September 1995Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
30 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMARBLE TWO
29 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersFRANKLINSTEIN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stevens County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 41 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 41 workings within 5 miles of Marble: 15 prospects, 10 occurrences, 6 unknowns, 5 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Limestone, Dimension, Molybdenum, Gold. 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
AntelopeGold, CopperOccurrence
BullionLead, Silver, Gold, Copper, ZincOccurrence
HeritageZinc, TungstenProspect
Jani QuarryCalciumProspect
MinorcaCopper, Gold, SilverPast Producer
O Toole MountainUranium, REEOccurrence
Phillips Ranch ProspectZinc, LeadProspect
SerendipMagnesite, StoneOccurrence
Tile CreekAntimonyProspect
Botte-Chino QuarryStone, DimensionUnknown

Every working recorded in Stevens County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marble in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2023: 2 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
April 2017FloodMarble$800,000Saturated soil conditions caused by periodic heavy rain and snow melt during the month of March and the first half of April produced extensive field flooding along the Colville River and debris flows through out the county. Flooding also damage area roads with the most notable event being the closure of Highway 395 near Colville due to persistent flooding. The road was cut by a flood in March, and opened back up in the first week of April. Thirteen other secondary roads in the county were closed due to flooding and debris flows.
April 2023FloodMarble$1,000Culvert and washout issues on Snyder Road on Swede Pass roadway from heavy rain/snowmelt.

Every storm recorded in Stevens 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
Little Dalles (historical)1.7 miles12
Ryan4.2 miles11
Onion Creek6.6 miles12
Northport7.9 miles13
Bossburg10.0 miles13
Velvet10.2 miles13
Frontier11.0 miles13
Evans11.4 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 MarbleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27989023The 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 1522700. 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.