Marmarth, North Dakota 58643 - U.S. Post Offices on Waymarking.com

Marmarth is a very small community located in Slope County, ND, on US Highway 12. It had a population of 114 in July 2009, reflecting a population loss from the 2000 census of about 19%.

The area was settled by German, Polish, English, Irish, and Norwegian immigrants and was founded in 1907.

The city of Marmarth was established along the Milwaukee Road transcontinental rail line known as the Pacific Extension. The name comes from a combination of letters in the first and middle names of Margaret Martha Finch, granddaughter of Albert J. Earling, president of the railroad at the time.

The city was originally laid out on the east side of the Little Missouri River, near where a post office known as Neva and a hotel had already been established. However, due to problems with securing additional land on the east side of the river for a reasonable price, the city was moved to the opposite side in 1908.

Marmarth grew quickly to serve the hundreds of homesteaders who flooded into the area. Because the first two decades of the 20th century were unusually wet, the new settlers reaped harvests of wheat on a scale "that promised to turn even owners of modest farms into wealthy men." By 1920, Marmarth had 1,318 inhabitants. An auditorium, a theater, a large train station, a newspaper, and paved sidewalks were all established during this time.

By the 1920s, a combination of the end of the agricultural boom occasioned by WWI and a return to more normal (i.e., drier) climatic conditions drove many of the settlers from their farms. At the 1930 census, the city's population had declined nearly 50% from a decade earlier. This population decline has continued every census thereafter, with the number of residents in 2010 nearly 10% of the number recorded in 1920.

Type of structure:: Stand alone re-enter Zip Code here:: 58643 Current Status:: Still in Use

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