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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.

Marty within Charles Mix County

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 figures

Marty 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.

YearPeople Change
2010402
2020677+275 (+68%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

96 since 2002

Regional 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/undetermined40
Debris and open burning21
Arson/incendiarism15
Fireworks10
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
6 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresYankton AgencyA0803012
5 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresYankton AgencyMARTY 1
30 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWagner Volunteer Fire DepartmentJIM ROBERTSON
11 September 2005Fireworks1.0 acresYankton AgencyA0805023
3 August 2003Debris and open burning5.0 acresYankton AgencyA0803008
2 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresYankton AgencyA0803007
19 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionGRANITE
16 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresYankton AgencyBDRO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charles Mix County

Storms near this place

24 since 2001

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2008Tornado (EF1)Marty$100,000A 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 2020Flash FloodMarty$50,000Water 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 2004Thunderstorm WindMarty$10,000Thunderstorm winds rolled and damaged a deputy sheriff's vehicle. The deputy was not injured.
April 2025HailMarty-Hail was quarter size and slightly larger.
July 2025HailMarty-Hail to quarter size was quite brief and intermixed with heavy rainfall.
April 2018HailMarty-Hail continued for 10 minutes after this time.
June 2015HailMarty-Quarter size hail was accompanied by rainfall of 1.10 inch.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindMarty-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several large branches blown down.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindMarty-Thunderstorm winds caused minor tree damage.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindMarty-Thunderstorm winds blew the door off a shed and caused tree damage, including large branches blown down.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindMarty-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including a few trees and numerous large branches blown down.
August 2001HailMarty-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 2020HailMarty-no account filed
June 2019HailMarty-no account filed
June 2015HailMarty-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindMarty-no account filed
August 2007HailMarty-no account filed
August 2007HailMarty-no account filed
September 2005HailMarty-no account filed
May 2004HailMarty-no account filed
May 2004HailMarty-no account filed
July 2002HailMarty-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindMarty-no account filed
August 2001HailMarty-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Charles Mix 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
Greenwood5.2 miles10
Pickstown7.7 miles10
Wagner9.2 miles11
Ravinia9.9 miles10
Dezera12.6 miles11
Lake Andes12.9 miles11
Dante13.2 miles9
Lake View Colony15.8 miles10

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 MartyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3306761The 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.