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Marvin, South Dakota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Osceola Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57251. The Survey maps it on the Marvin quadrangle. 19 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,644 feet above sea level.

Marvin within Grant County

Population over time

2 figures

Marvin fell from 34 to 19 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
201034
202019-15 (-44%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Marvin between 1999 and 2010, burning about 16 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 burning2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
4 September 2007Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
3 July 2006Debris and open burning10 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
15 May 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionBURLINGTON
18 April 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreDesmet Volunteer Fire Department#639
26 March 2007Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Marvin: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Concrete Materials Co PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fiebelcrn PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Grant County

Storms near this place

36 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marvin in 36 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 18 hail, 12 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 3 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
March 2009Flash FloodMarvin$20,000Flash flooding damaged a bridge along with several township roads in Grant county.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindMarvin-Six grain bins received considerable denting from estimated seventy-five mph winds.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindMarvin-A semi was blown over on Interstate-29. No injuries were reported.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindMarvin-Sixty mph winds were estimated.
July 2015HailMarvin-Nickel size hail damaged some nearby corn.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindMarvin-Sixty mph winds were estimated.
June 2013Flash FloodMarvin-Over three inches of rain caused water to go over a part of Highway 123 south of Wilmot.
July 2011Flash FloodMarvin-Several roads were flooded by nearly 4 inches of rain.
June 2003Tornado (F0)Marvin-A tornado touched down briefly in far northwest Grant county causing no damage.
June 1998Tornado (F0)Marvin-A tornado touched down briefly north of Marvin with no damage reported. Path length and width were estimated.
June 1998Tornado (F0)Marvin-A tornado touched down briefly in a pasture west of Marvin. The observer said it was a black and white spinning column that sucked up water from a slough. No damage was reported. Path length and width were estimated.
August 2020HailMarvin-no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindMarvin-no account filed
August 2015HailMarvin-no account filed
July 2015Thunderstorm WindMarvin-no account filed
July 2014Thunderstorm WindMarvin-no account filed
October 2013HailMarvin-no account filed
August 2013Thunderstorm WindMarvin-no account filed
July 2011HailMarvin-no account filed
July 2011HailMarvin-no account filed
July 2011HailMarvin-no account filed
May 2011HailMarvin-no account filed
July 2011HailMarvin-no account filed
June 2007HailMarvin-no account filed
June 2005HailMarvin-no account filed
May 2005HailMarvin-no account filed
July 2003HailMarvin-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindMarvin-no account filed
July 2003HailMarvin-no account filed
June 2003HailMarvin-no account filed
June 2003HailMarvin-no account filed
July 2003HailMarvin-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindMarvin-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindMarvin-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindMarvin-no account filed
June 2002HailMarvin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
Twin Brooks8.0 miles6
Stockholm12.6 miles6
Milbank15.0 miles6
Troy15.6 miles6
Strandburg17.0 miles6
LaBolt19.2 miles6
Albee23.9 miles6
Big Stone City23.9 miles7

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 MarvinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2734121The 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 1256341. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.