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Marion, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Marion City. It lies in ZIP code area 54950. The Survey maps it on the Marion quadrangle. 1,324 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 850 feet above sea level.

Marion within Waupaca County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

Fires near this place

64 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Marion between 1992 and 2020, burning about 85 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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
Debris and open burning28
Equipment and vehicle use15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1

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
4 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
27 July 2020Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBUCKBEE RD FIRE
22 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.4 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 June 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBUCKBEE CAR FIRE
6 May 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesMALUEG RD FIRE
5 May 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waupaca County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Marion: 4 occurrences, 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Donald Mielke Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Earl Mielke Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Gollnow Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Haase Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Kussmann Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Laatsch Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Radke Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Strehlow Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Waupaca County

Storms near this place

12 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marion in 12 storm reports between 1993 and 2015: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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
May 1999Thunderstorm WindMarion1 hurtno account filed
July 2015Tornado (EF1)Marion$100,000A tornado formed and heavily damaged a barn (DI 1, DOD 6) and adjacent garage. The roof of a nearby house was damaged and windows of another were broken (DI 2, DOD 3 and 4). At least two dozen trees were uprooted or snapped (DI 27 and 28, DOD 3 and 4). Average path width was 50 yards.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindMarion$50,000no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindMarion$1,000no account filed
May 2012Thunderstorm WindMarion-Thunderstorms produced a wind gust estimated at 60 mph west of Marion.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindMarion-Thunderstorm winds flattened a cornfield near Marion and left debris on State Highway 110.
July 2010HailMarion-Penny size hail fell at Marion.
July 2008Heavy RainMarion-Heavy rain caused the roof to collapse of an unused building at the Marion Plywood Corporation. The flat roof could not hold the weight of the intense rainfall.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindMarion-no account filed
May 2004HailMarion-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindMarion-no account filed
May 1998HailMarion-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Buckbee3.2 miles8
Granite City (historical)6.0 miles8
Marble (historical)7.5 miles8
Clintonville7.6 miles8
Big Falls7.7 miles7
Embarrass9.7 miles8
Nicholson10.3 miles8
Symco10.9 miles8

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 MarionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1569859The 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 1569041. 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.