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.
Population over time
2 figuresMarvin 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 34 | |
| 2020 | 19 | -15 (-44%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 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.
- 1953 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Marvin quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
5 since 1999Regional 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 burning | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2007 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 3.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 3 July 2006 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 15 May 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | BURLINGTON |
| 18 April 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Desmet Volunteer Fire Department | #639 |
| 26 March 2007 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Concrete Materials Co Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Fiebelcrn Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
36 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2009 | Flash Flood | Marvin | $20,000 | Flash flooding damaged a bridge along with several township roads in Grant county. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marvin | - | Six grain bins received considerable denting from estimated seventy-five mph winds. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marvin | - | A semi was blown over on Interstate-29. No injuries were reported. |
| August 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marvin | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated. |
| July 2015 | Hail | Marvin | - | Nickel size hail damaged some nearby corn. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marvin | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated. |
| June 2013 | Flash Flood | Marvin | - | Over three inches of rain caused water to go over a part of Highway 123 south of Wilmot. |
| July 2011 | Flash Flood | Marvin | - | Several roads were flooded by nearly 4 inches of rain. |
| June 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Marvin | - | A tornado touched down briefly in far northwest Grant county causing no damage. |
| June 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Marvin | - | A tornado touched down briefly north of Marvin with no damage reported. Path length and width were estimated. |
| June 1998 | Tornado (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 2020 | Hail | Marvin | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marvin | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Marvin | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marvin | - | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marvin | - | no account filed |
| October 2013 | Hail | Marvin | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marvin | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Marvin | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Marvin | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Marvin | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Marvin | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Marvin | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Marvin | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Marvin | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Marvin | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Marvin | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marvin | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Marvin | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Marvin | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Marvin | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Marvin | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marvin | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marvin | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marvin | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Marvin | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Twin Brooks | 8.0 miles | 6 | |
| Stockholm | 12.6 miles | 6 | |
| Milbank | 15.0 miles | 6 | |
| Troy | 15.6 miles | 6 | |
| Strandburg | 17.0 miles | 6 | |
| LaBolt | 19.2 miles | 6 | |
| Albee | 23.9 miles | 6 | |
| Big Stone City | 23.9 miles | 7 |
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 Marvin | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2734121 | 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 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.



