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Marcus, Washington

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Kettle Falls census division. It lies in ZIP code area 99141. It stands on Marcus Island. The Survey maps it on the Marcus quadrangle. 216 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,391 feet above sea level.

Marcus within Stevens County

Population over time

2 figures

Marcus grew from 183 to 216 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
2010183
2020216+33 (+18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

270 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 270 fires within 5 miles of Marcus between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,386 acres in total. 59 started naturally. 8 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
Natural59
Missing data/not specified/undetermined52
Debris and open burning48
Recreation and ceremony26
Fireworks15
Railroad operations and maintenance15
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Equipment and vehicle use13
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Arson/incendiarism8
Other causes6
Smoking6

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 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.8 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersKIFER ROAD
7 September 2017Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBOSSBURG AGAIN
7 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreLake Roosevelt National Recreation AreaKAMLOOPS
6 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersDJ BARREL
5 September 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLake Roosevelt National Recreation AreaCAMPFIRE42
4 September 2019Railroad operations and maintenance13 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersPEACH CREST
4 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSINGERS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stevens County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 79 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 79 workings within 5 miles of Marcus: 34 occurrences, 19 prospects, 15 past producers, 6 unknowns. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Nickel, Uranium. 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
Bonnie GroupChromiumPast Producer
Brooks PropertyLimestone, GeneralProspect
City ViewGold, Lead, Silver, CopperOccurrenceVein
City ViewGold, Copper, Lead, SilverProspect
Columbia RiverCopper, Antimony, Gold, SilverProducerChalcopyrite, Molybdenite, Pyrite, Tetrahedrite
Columbia, Coyote, Gray EagleMolybdenum, Copper, Gold, SilverOccurrenceVein
CornetCopper, Gold, Lead, SilverProspect
Gold BarGold, Silver, Copper, Lead, ZincOccurrence
Gold BarGold, Silver, Arsenic, Zinc, Lead, Copper, AntimonyProducerPyrite, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite
Gold BarGold, Copper, Lead, Silver, ZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in Stevens County

Storms near this place

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marcus in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
July 1997Thunderstorm WindMarcus$15,000Roof lifted off house. Numerous telephone poles down
July 2012Thunderstorm WindMarcus$1,000Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and power lines temporarily blocking Highway 395.
June 2020HailMarcus-A member of the public reported hail with a diameter of 1.5 inches from thunderstorms near Marcus.
June 2020HailMarcus-A member of the public at Blue Moose Lodging reported hail with a diameter of 1.5 inches from thunderstorms near Marcus.

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
East Marcus1.3 miles12
Bear3.5 miles12
Kettle Falls3.7 miles12
Powell3.8 miles12
Blue Town (historical)3.8 miles12
Godfrey (historical)4.0 miles12
Evans4.2 miles12
Ward4.7 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 MarcusAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1506772The 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 1522718. 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.