Marblemount, Washington
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the East Skagit census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98267. It stands on Backus Creek. The Survey maps it on the Marblemount quadrangle. 286 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 315 feet above sea level.
On record in Marblemount
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 3 records
Backus-Marblemount Ranger Station House No. 1009listed 1989
Backus-Marblemount Ranger Station House No. 1010listed 1989
Hidden Lake Peak Lookoutlisted 1987
Population over time
3 figuresMarblemount grew from 251 to 286 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 251 | |
| 2010 | 203 | -48 (-19%) |
| 2020 | 286 | +83 (+41%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Marblemount quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Concrete quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Concrete quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Concrete quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Mt. Baker quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Marblemount quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
23 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Marblemount between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,202 acres in total. 6 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 burning | 6 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | MARBLEMOUNT STRIKE |
| 3 September 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest | OLD MAN |
| 17 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 4.2 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | CASCADIA |
| 17 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest | FS CASCADIA |
| 12 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.4 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 4 August 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 30 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Washington State Fire Marshal's Office | MARBLEMOUNT |
| 29 August 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | 1,162 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 17 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Marblemount: 8 unknowns, 4 occurrences, 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, Dimension, Nickel, Talc-Soapstone, Graphite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fred Wenrich | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Rods Trucking Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Skagit River | Graphite | Occurrence | ||
| Skagit River | Graphite | Prospect | ||
| Wash Marble & Building Stone | Stone | Unknown | ||
| Cascade Talc Pit | Talc-Soapstone | Past Producer | ||
| Diobsud | Nickel | Unknown | ||
| Jordan Creek | Nickel | Occurrence | Unknown | |
| Jordan Creek | Nickel | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
5 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marblemount in 5 storm reports between 2009 and 2024: 4 flash flood, 1 flood. The reports record 2 injuries. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2009 | Flash Flood | Marblemount | 2 hurt, $4,000 | Heavy rainfall from a thunderstorm caused a flash flood and debris flow that covered State Route 20. The debris flow was 300 yards wide and more than 10 feet deep. Two people were treated for minor injuries from the debris flow and their motorcycle had to be towed back to Marblemount. |
| November 2021 | Flood | Marblemount | $12,000,000 | Heavy rain and some snow melt caused flooding throughout much of Skagit County, especially on the Skagit and Samish Rivers. Flooding on the Skagit started on the 12th, then temporarily dropped below flood stage, before rising to major flood on the night of the 14th. 2 fatalities occurred during this time with many road, highways, and bridges closed due to water over roadway, washouts, sloughing, and debris. Town inundated including Rockport, Hamilton, Lyman, Sedro Woolley, and Mount Vernon. There was urban and small stream flooding as well on the 15th.The heavy rain also triggered a number of landslides throughout the area. Damages are reported and estimated; not all damages have been identified. Crop damages are unknown. |
| August 2024 | Flash Flood | Marblemount | $103,400 | Heavy rain from a couple of thunderstorms fell over the mountain ridge, above the recent Easy Fire burn scar, with the main period of heavy rain lasting about one hour and 45 minutes starting 1800PST. Flash floods and debris flows came out of several drainages along and northeast of State Route 20 between mile post 151 and 152.5, burying the highway. The debris flows initiated above the burn scar and little of the flood debris was from the burn scar itself. It took two weeks to clean up and fix the highway to make it passable. |Rain rates from a nearby rain gage along the highway were up to 0.29 inches in 15 minutes, 0.53 inches in 30 minutes, 0.96 inches in 1 hour, and a two hour storm total of 1.28 inches. No injuries or fatalities occurred. |
| August 2013 | Flash Flood | Marblemount | $100,000 | Flash floods left mud and debris across Highway 20 northwest of Rainy Pass. The road was closed for nearly a week and suffered some damage. Cascade River Road was also damaged. |
| September 2013 | Flash Flood | Marblemount | $100,000 | Rain caused flash floods and mudslides in several locations and closed a 24-mile section of the North Cascades Highway. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Corkindale | 1.8 miles | 9 | |
| Portage | 5.0 miles | 9 | |
| Rockport | 8.4 miles | 13 | |
| Sauk | 10.1 miles | 14 | |
| Nestos (historical) | 13.4 miles | 15 | |
| Van Horn | 13.6 miles | 15 | |
| Mansford | 15.7 miles | 15 | |
| Concrete | 15.7 miles | 15 |
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 Marblemount | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1512625 | The 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 1522717. 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.





