Marvin, South Dakota
Marvin is a town in Grant County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 19 at the 2020 census. Marvin was originally called Grade Siding; during the search for what residents considered a more suitable name, the presence of a Marvin brand safe in town caused the new name to be selected. Geography Marvin is located at (45.260146, −96.912613), in the headwaters region of the Whetstone River. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all land. Marvin has been assigned the ZIP code 57251 and the FIPS place code 41220. Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 34 people, 15 households, and 10 families residing in the town. The population density was . There were 21 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the town was 85.3% White, 5.9% Native American, and 8.8% from two or more races. There were 15 households, of which 26.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 60.0% were m ...
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Town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an origin with the German word , the Dutch word , and the Old Norse . The original Proto-Germanic word, *''tūnan'', is thought to be an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic *''dūnom'' (cf. Old Irish , Welsh ). The original sense of the word in both Germanic and Celtic was that of a fortress or an enclosure. Cognates of ''town'' in many modern Germanic languages designate a fence or a hedge. In English and Dutch, the meaning of the word took on the sense of the space which these fences enclosed, and through which a track must run. In England, a town was a small community that could not afford or was not allowed to build walls or other larger fortifications, and built a palisade or stockade instead. In the Netherlands, this space was a garden, mor ...
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