Marlow, South Dakota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in La Belle Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57270. The Survey maps it on the Marlow quadrangle.

Marlow within Marshall County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1953 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Marlow quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Sisseton quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

5 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Marlow between 2003 and 2012, burning about 274 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
Debris and open burning	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Other causes	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
2 May 2003	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Tewaukon National Wildlife Refuge	ARNAM
28 March 2005	Debris and open burning	150 acres	Tewaukon National Wildlife Refuge	FRENIER
17 October 2003	Other causes	1.0 acres	Tewaukon National Wildlife Refuge	SHOP FIRE
10 October 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	100 acres	Tewaukon National Wildlife Refuge	ORVILLE
9 January 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	LENTSCH FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Hillhead

Every fire recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marlow in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2014: 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
July 2011	Flash Flood	Marlow	-	Heavy rain flooded several roads and washed out a culvert.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Marlow	-	Sixty mph winds downed several large tree limbs.
September 2014	Hail	Marlow	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Hillhead	5.9 miles	6
Veblen	6.6 miles	6
Lake City	13.6 miles	6
Clear Lake	15.3 miles	6
Kidder	17.6 miles	7
Eden	21.1 miles	6
Westwood Colony	21.1 miles	7
Britton	21.3 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1261039. 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.