Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Marquette, KS

Marquette is a city in northwestern McPherson County, Kansas, located between Kansas Highway 4 and the Smoky Hill River in the Smoky Hills region, where Cretaceous Dakota Formation sandstone outcrops rise as hills and buttes.

Marquette began in 1873 with a flour mill on the banks of the Smoky Hill River and was chartered on February 9, 1874; it was settled by Swedish immigrants and Civil War veterans and named after Marquette, Michigan.

City founder Hans Hanson's original 1871 wood-frame cabin — where the city charter was signed — still stands in the backyard of the sixteen-room Victorian Hanson-Lindfors house he built in 1888, and the 1888 Hans Hanson House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

On the night of May 8–9, 1905, an F4 tornado destroyed much of Marquette and killed 34 people; more than a century later, on April 14, 2012, a large EF4 tornado passed just west of town without causing any fatalities.

The 2020 census counted 599 people in 274 households in Marquette, down from a peak population of 780 in 1920.

In May 2003, facing a declining population, Marquette became the first of at least ten Kansas towns to offer free residential land to newcomers: 50 acres of former farmland were developed with streets and utilities, and 21 of the roughly one-third-acre lots were claimed within a year, on condition that a house be built within a year and lived in for a year.

The Kansas Motorcycle Museum stands on North Washington Street in downtown Marquette; it was founded in 2004 by Marquette native "Stan the Man" Engdahl, a national motorcycle racing champion.

Marquette's Washington Street Historic District preserves a block of late-19th-century stores restored and repainted in their original colors, and the Range School Museum preserves a one-room 1906 schoolhouse where local children still spend a half-day of class each spring and fall.

Marquette students attend Smoky Valley USD 400 (the Vikings); Marquette's own high school, home of the Wolverines, closed through school unification in 1985, and the town's last school closed its doors in June 2014.

Ten miles from Marquette lies Kanopolis State Park, the first state park established in Kansas — completed in 1948 — with more than 22,000 acres of hills, bluffs and woods and a 3,000-acre lake offering over 25 miles of trails.