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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.

Marblemount within Skagit County

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

Population over time

3 figures

Marblemount 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.

YearPeople Change
2000251
2010203-48 (-19%)
2020286+83 (+41%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

23 since 1992

Regional 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 burning6
Natural6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use3

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
8 September 2019Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMARBLEMOUNT STRIKE
3 September 1997Naturalunder an acreMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National ForestOLD MAN
17 September 2017Debris and open burning4.2 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCASCADIA
17 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National ForestFS CASCADIA
12 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.4 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
4 August 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
30 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresWashington State Fire Marshal's OfficeMARBLEMOUNT
29 August 1998Recreation and ceremony1,162 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Skagit County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Fred WenrichStonePast Producer
Rods Trucking PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Skagit RiverGraphiteOccurrence
Skagit RiverGraphiteProspect
Wash Marble & Building StoneStoneUnknown
Cascade Talc PitTalc-SoapstonePast Producer
DiobsudNickelUnknown
Jordan CreekNickelOccurrenceUnknown
Jordan CreekNickelOccurrence

Every working recorded in Skagit County

Storms near this place

5 since 2009

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2009Flash FloodMarblemount2 hurt, $4,000Heavy 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 2021FloodMarblemount$12,000,000Heavy 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 2024Flash FloodMarblemount$103,400Heavy 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 2013Flash FloodMarblemount$100,000Flash 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 2013Flash FloodMarblemount$100,000Rain caused flash floods and mudslides in several locations and closed a 24-mile section of the North Cascades Highway.

Every storm recorded in Skagit 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
Corkindale1.8 miles9
Portage5.0 miles9
Rockport8.4 miles13
Sauk10.1 miles14
Nestos (historical)13.4 miles15
Van Horn13.6 miles15
Mansford15.7 miles15
Concrete15.7 miles15

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 MarblemountAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1512625The 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.