Marion, South Dakota
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Marion City. It lies in ZIP code area 57043. The Survey maps it on the Marion quadrangle. 849 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,450 feet above sea level.
On record in Marion
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 3 records
Population over time
2 figuresMarion grew from 784 to 849 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 | 784 | |
| 2020 | 849 | +65 (+8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 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.
- 1898 USGS Parker quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Marion quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Freeman quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
39 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Marion between 1999 and 2020, burning about 265 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 24 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2020 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | MARILYN KONDA |
| 26 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | 272ND / 444TH |
| 26 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | MURRAY WALTNER |
| 2 August 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | SECTION 18 FIRE |
| 2 August 2008 | Smoking | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 18 August 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | KANE |
| 14 August 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | SARGENT BAIL FIRE |
| 8 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | UNKOWN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
39 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marion in 39 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 25 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1995 | Hail | Marion | $400,000 | Hail broke windows and otherwise damaged cars and houses. The hail also caused extensive crop damage in the area, with soybeans being the worst hit. Corn was also damaged, although to a lesser extent due to its maturity. The amount of the crop damage was undetermined. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marion | $200,000 | Thunderstorm winds caused widespread tree damage, including large trees blown down. Several vehicles were damaged by falling trees or wind blown tree debris, at least two being destroyed. |
| June 1999 | Hail | Marion | $100,000 | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marion | $50,000 | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marion | $15,000 | A farm outbuilding was blown over by thunderstorm winds. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marion | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds broke windows in a house, tore shingles off the roof, and caused tree damage. |
| September 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marion | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew down a wall and blew the roof off of a shed at a lumber yard. The roof hit power lines and knocked out power to much of the town. The winds also caused undetermined damage to corn crops. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marion | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marion | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were measured by a personal weather station. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Marion | - | In addition to the hail up to the size of quarters, there was around one inch of heavy rainfall. |
| July 2021 | Hail | Marion | - | Corn was stripped by large amounts of half-dollar sized hail along 280th Street. Crop damage is an estimate from insured losses. Information provided by the United States Department of Agriculture. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marion | - | Branches down throughout town. |
| September 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marion | - | Six inch diameter branches down in the town of Marion. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Marion | - | Social Media report. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marion | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including up to 3 inch diameter branches blown down. |
| April 2010 | Hail | Marion | - | Large hail, along with smaller size hail, covered the ground. |
| June 2009 | Tornado (EF0) | Marion | - | A brief tornado caused no reported damage. |
| August 2000 | Hail | Marion | - | Large hail caused severe crop damage, especially just west of Marion where the hail fell for 15 minutes and covered the ground. Several soybean crops were completely destroyed, and other bean and corn crops were damaged to the extent of producing greatly reduced yields. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Marion | - | no account filed |
| April 2021 | Hail | Marion | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Marion | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marion | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Marion | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Marion | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Marion | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Marion | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Marion | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marion | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Marion | - | no account filed |
| November 2005 | Hail | Marion | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Marion | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Marion | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Marion | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Marion | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Marion | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marion | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Marion | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Marion | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Marion | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monroe | 5.0 miles | 11 | |
| Parker | 6.8 miles | 11 | |
| Dolton | 8.1 miles | 11 | |
| Turkey Ridge | 12.4 miles | 11 | |
| Hurley | 13.3 miles | 11 | |
| Chancellor | 14.9 miles | 10 | |
| Spring Valley | 15.1 miles | 11 | |
| Cameron Colony | 16.2 miles | 11 |
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 Marion | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1861989 | 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 1265666. 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.




