Marquette, Wisconsin
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Marquette town. It lies in ZIP code area 53947. It lies near Grays Rocks. The Survey maps it on the Marquette quadrangle. 172 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 797 feet above sea level.
On record in Marquette
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 2 records
Daniel and Caltherine Ketchum Cobblestone Houselisted 2001- Methodist Episcopal Churchlisted 2021
Population over time
2 figuresMarquette grew from 150 to 172 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 150 | |
| 2020 | 172 | +22 (+15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1955 USGS Randolph quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Marquette quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Wisconsin Dells quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Wisconsin Dells quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
96 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Marquette between 1992 and 2020, burning about 293 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 7 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 burning | 31 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 22 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 14 |
| Other causes | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 8 September 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | FRANKS DR |
| 2 September 2005 | Natural | 6.5 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 August 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | WICKS LANDING |
| 4 August 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | SOUTH PINE |
| 19 August 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | MAPLE |
| 19 August 2011 | Debris and open burning | 3.6 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | SPRING LAKE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Marquette: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mecan Rhyolite Quarry | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Farris Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Stiffner Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
19 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marquette in 19 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 3 tornado, 1 lightning. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Marquette | $100,000 | A brief, weak, tornado damaged one home, one barn, and uprooted several trees. This tornado was embedded in a solid line of thunderstorms, and apparently formed on the left side of a pronounced downburst on the leading edge of the line. On the Milwaukee-Sullivan WSR-88D, a mesocyclone and tornado-vortex signature were observed. |
| April 2004 | Lightning | Marquette | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marquette | $10,000 | Scattered trees downed throughout the county. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marquette | $10,000 | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marquette | $7,000 | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marquette | $7,000 | no account filed |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marquette | $5,000 | A trained spotter reported trees downed by powerful thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 65 mph (56 knots) in the village of Marquette. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marquette | $3,000 | Two foot diameter trees knocked down. A downed branch shattered the rear window of a mini-van. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marquette | $500 | Tree branches snapped and a shed blown over near the inlet of Lake Puckaway. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marquette | - | A measured wind gust of 59 mph in Marquette near Puckaway Lake. |
| August 2018 | Tornado (EF1) | Marquette | - | Tornado was 1 of 19 tornadoes that occurred across central to east central Wisconsin on the afternoon of August 28th. This tornado went just south of Lake Puckaway. Widespread straight line winds caused significant tree and crop damage across the county as well. |
| August 2018 | Tornado (EF0) | Marquette | - | Tornado was 1 of 19 tornadoes that occurred across central to east central Wisconsin on the afternoon of August 28th. This tornado went east-southeast of the Village of Marquette and was just west of 73. Widespread straight line winds caused significant tree and crop damage across the county as well. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Marquette | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Marquette | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Marquette | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Marquette | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Marquette | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marquette | - | no account filed |
| March 2000 | Hail | Marquette | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kingston | 3.6 miles | 10 | |
| Green Lake Terrace | 4.6 miles | 14 | |
| Manchester | 6.2 miles | 10 | |
| Greenwyck | 6.6 miles | 14 | |
| Sylvan Shores | 6.7 miles | 14 | |
| Lakewood Estates | 7.2 miles | 14 | |
| Princeton | 7.2 miles | 14 | |
| Dalton | 7.2 miles | 10 |
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 Marquette | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2360162 | 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 1569063. 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.





