Marble, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Union town. It lies in ZIP code area 54929. The Survey maps it on the Clintonville South quadrangle. It stands 846 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Marble within Waupaca County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1955 USGS Clintonville quadrangle1:48000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Green Bay quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1970 USGS Clintonville South quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Shawano quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Clintonville South quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

47 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Marble (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 61 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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	27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Recreation and ceremony	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Fireworks	2
Other causes	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	1

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 July 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 July 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	SHADY LANE
21 July 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
18 July 2009	Fireworks	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	LITTLE CREEK SOUTH
18 July 2009	Fireworks	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	LITTLE CREEK NORTH
25 June 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 May 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	PLEASANT VIEW
4 May 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waupaca 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Nicholson	3.5 miles	8
Symco	3.8 miles	8
Buckbee	6.3 miles	8
Nowell (historical)	6.3 miles	7
Bear Creek Corners	6.9 miles	7
Clintonville	7.0 miles	8
Manawa	7.2 miles	7
Marion	7.5 miles	8

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 Marble (historical)	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6755151	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 1850504. 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.