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Marietta, Minnesota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Augusta Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56257. The Survey maps it on the Marietta quadrangle. 116 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,122 feet above sea level.

Marietta within Lac qui Parle County

Population over time

2 figures

Marietta fell from 162 to 116 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.

YearPeople Change
2010162
2020116-46 (-28%)

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.

Fires near this place

2 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Marietta between 1996 and 2010, burning about 48 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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 burning1
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
2 May 1996Debris and open burning29 acresMorris National Wildlife RefugeLARSON
12 April 2010Natural19 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lac qui Parle County

Storms near this place

16 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marietta in 16 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2009FloodMarietta$250,000Three township roads were closed due to flooding. In addition to the flooding, several roads and bridges needed repairs with county official estimating $250,000 in damages. This estimate was reported on March 29th.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindMarietta-Mesonet station MN059 T.h.212 - Marietta - Mp 1 measured a 57 kt wind gust at 3:40am and 3:45am LST.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindMarietta-Several large trees and power lines were blown down in Marietta, with the worst damage southeast of the town. Some damage occurred to local soybean crops.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindMarietta-A large tree was blown down on Highway 40 in far eastern Lac Qui Parle County.
March 2011FloodMarietta-Several highways, and county roads were closed for a long period due to Spring snow melt along the Minnesota River, and several of its tributaries. Some of the major roads that were closed in Lac Qui Parle County includes 212, 75 and 40.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindMarietta-Observation taken from the MNDOT Road Weather sensor at Mehurin on Highway 212.
June 2006HailMarietta-Hail occurred in section 5 of Mehurin Township. Soybean crop damage reported in section 17 of Mehurin Township.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindMarietta-The fire department reported a wind gust of 60 MPH.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindMarietta-Measured by MNDOT Road Weather System.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindMarietta-no account filed
June 2017HailMarietta-no account filed
June 2014HailMarietta-no account filed
July 2011Thunderstorm WindMarietta-no account filed
June 2002HailMarietta-no account filed
August 2002HailMarietta-no account filed
May 1996HailMarietta-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lac qui Parle 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
Nassau4.2 miles8
Haydenville5.7 miles7
Rosen10.1 miles7
Bellingham11.2 miles7
Madison11.7 miles6
Louisburg17.0 miles6
Dawson19.9 miles8
Providence20.1 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 MariettaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1912362The 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 647534. 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.

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.