Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Marble, CO

Marble is an incorporated statutory town in Gunnison County, Colorado, first incorporated in 1899, in the upper Crystal River valley of the Elk Mountains.

The town takes its name from the historic Yule Marble quarry in the mountains above town on Yule Creek, where quarrying operations began in the late 19th century.

The 2020 census counted 133 residents in Marble, up slightly from 131 in 2010; the 2010 census counted 54 households in the town.

Marble boomed with the quarry to 782 residents in the 1910 census, though historians estimate the true peak population ran into the thousands, before crashing to just five residents in 1960.

Yule marble is nearly pure calcite and is praised as one of the purest marbles ever quarried, rivaling classical Italian and Greek marble; it was used for the Tomb of the Unknowns and parts of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., civic buildings in San Francisco, and New York's Equitable Building.

The quarry was acquired by Polycor in 2004 and later sold to Italy's R.E.D. Graniti S.p.A., and its stone is now exported worldwide.

Eight sites in Marble are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, including the Marble Mill Site, Marble High School, Marble Town Hall and St. Paul's Church.

An international marble sculpting symposium, the Marble/marble symposium, has been held in the town every summer since 1988.

Marble Charter School, a public tuition-free charter school for kindergarten through eighth grade, serves the Crystal River Valley from the town.

Marble covers about 0.36 square miles at an elevation of 8,009 feet, is reached by a paved road from State Highway 133, is geographically separated from the rest of Gunnison County by Schofield Pass, serves as the gateway to the Crystal townsite, and has its own post office under ZIP code 81623.