Marty, South Dakota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Wahehe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57380. The Survey maps it on the Marty quadrangle. 677 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,447 feet above sea level.
On record in Marty
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 1 record
Population over time
2 figuresMarty grew from 402 to 677 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 | 402 | |
| 2020 | 677 | +275 (+68%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1955 USGS O'Neill quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS O'Neill quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Marty quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1969 USGS O'Neill quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Atkinson quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS O'Neill quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
96 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Marty between 2002 and 2020, burning about 471 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 15 were 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 | 40 |
| Debris and open burning | 21 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 15 |
| Fireworks | 10 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Yankton Agency | A0803012 |
| 5 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Yankton Agency | MARTY 1 |
| 30 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wagner Volunteer Fire Department | JIM ROBERTSON |
| 11 September 2005 | Fireworks | 1.0 acres | Yankton Agency | A0805023 |
| 3 August 2003 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Yankton Agency | A0803008 |
| 2 August 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Yankton Agency | A0803007 |
| 19 August 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | GRANITE |
| 16 August 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Yankton Agency | BDRO |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
24 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marty in 24 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 15 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2008 | Tornado (EF1) | Marty | $100,000 | A tornado severely damaged a home, destroyed outbuildings, and damaged storage bins at a farm near Ravinia. The tornado also caused tree damage along its path. |
| June 2020 | Flash Flood | Marty | $50,000 | Water was flowing from 8 to 10 inches deep across 388th Avenue from two miles north of Marty into town. Some residents of Marty were evacuated due to flood waters. Rainfall in the area over just a few hours totaled 3.01 inches near Platte and 2.75 inches near Pickstown. Property damage costs are rough estimates. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marty | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds rolled and damaged a deputy sheriff's vehicle. The deputy was not injured. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Marty | - | Hail was quarter size and slightly larger. |
| July 2025 | Hail | Marty | - | Hail to quarter size was quite brief and intermixed with heavy rainfall. |
| April 2018 | Hail | Marty | - | Hail continued for 10 minutes after this time. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Marty | - | Quarter size hail was accompanied by rainfall of 1.10 inch. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marty | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several large branches blown down. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marty | - | Thunderstorm winds caused minor tree damage. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marty | - | Thunderstorm winds blew the door off a shed and caused tree damage, including large branches blown down. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marty | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including a few trees and numerous large branches blown down. |
| August 2001 | Hail | Marty | - | Large hail fell in an area from near Marty east to Dante, including the town of Wagner. Damage was reported to vehicles and crops, but the amount of damage was not known. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Marty | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Marty | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Marty | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marty | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Marty | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Marty | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Marty | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Marty | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Marty | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Marty | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marty | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Marty | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greenwood | 5.2 miles | 10 | |
| Pickstown | 7.7 miles | 10 | |
| Wagner | 9.2 miles | 11 | |
| Ravinia | 9.9 miles | 10 | |
| Dezera | 12.6 miles | 11 | |
| Lake Andes | 12.9 miles | 11 | |
| Dante | 13.2 miles | 9 | |
| Lake View Colony | 15.8 miles | 10 |
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 Marty | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3306761 | 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 1256340. 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.






