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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.

Marion within Turner County

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 figures

Marion 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.

YearPeople Change
2010784
2020849+65 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

39 since 1999

Regional 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/undetermined24
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
29 September 2020Smoking1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionMARILYN KONDA
26 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression272ND / 444TH
26 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionMURRAY WALTNER
2 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSECTION 18 FIRE
2 August 2008Smokingunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
18 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionKANE
14 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionSARGENT BAIL FIRE
8 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionUNKOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Turner County

Storms near this place

39 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 1995HailMarion$400,000Hail 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 2003Thunderstorm WindMarion$200,000Thunderstorm 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 1999HailMarion$100,000no account filed
June 1997Thunderstorm WindMarion$50,000no account filed
September 2019Thunderstorm WindMarion$15,000A farm outbuilding was blown over by thunderstorm winds.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindMarion$5,000Thunderstorm winds broke windows in a house, tore shingles off the roof, and caused tree damage.
September 1995Thunderstorm WindMarion$5,000Thunderstorm 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 1999Thunderstorm WindMarion$5,000no account filed
July 2025Thunderstorm WindMarion-Thunderstorm wind gusts were measured by a personal weather station.
May 2024HailMarion-In addition to the hail up to the size of quarters, there was around one inch of heavy rainfall.
July 2021HailMarion-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 2019Thunderstorm WindMarion-Branches down throughout town.
September 2017Thunderstorm WindMarion-Six inch diameter branches down in the town of Marion.
June 2017HailMarion-Social Media report.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindMarion-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including up to 3 inch diameter branches blown down.
April 2010HailMarion-Large hail, along with smaller size hail, covered the ground.
June 2009Tornado (EF0)Marion-A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
August 2000HailMarion-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 2026HailMarion-no account filed
April 2021HailMarion-no account filed
May 2013HailMarion-no account filed
June 2007Thunderstorm WindMarion-no account filed
June 2007HailMarion-no account filed
June 2007HailMarion-no account filed
May 2007HailMarion-no account filed
June 2005HailMarion-no account filed
May 2005HailMarion-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindMarion-no account filed
June 2005HailMarion-no account filed
November 2005HailMarion-no account filed
April 2004HailMarion-no account filed
May 2004HailMarion-no account filed
May 2004HailMarion-no account filed
June 2003HailMarion-no account filed
June 2003HailMarion-no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindMarion-no account filed
May 2002HailMarion-no account filed
May 2002HailMarion-no account filed
June 2001HailMarion-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Turner 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
Monroe5.0 miles11
Parker6.8 miles11
Dolton8.1 miles11
Turkey Ridge12.4 miles11
Hurley13.3 miles11
Chancellor14.9 miles10
Spring Valley15.1 miles11
Cameron Colony16.2 miles11

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 MarionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1861989The 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.