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Clemons, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Minerva Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50051. It stands on Middle Minerva Creek. The Survey maps it on the State Center quadrangle. 140 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 951 feet above sea level.

Clemons within Marshall County

On record in Clemons

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

Clemons fell from 148 to 140 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
2010148
2020140-8 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

12 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Clemons between 2006 and 2020, burning about 68 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Debris and open burning3

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
12 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 May 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 April 2019Debris and open burning15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
13 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources2962 BINFORD AVE, IA
10 April 2018Debris and open burning10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Clemons: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
Clemons Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Humphreys PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this place

8 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clemons in 8 storm reports between 2003 and 2018: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud, 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
May 2013Flash FloodClemons$25,000Minerva Creek out of its banks and flooding 50 acres near 148th and S52. Water approaching the bridge. Gravel road 155th was under water.
May 2018HailClemons$5,000Trained spotter reported quarter sized hail and small branches down between Saint Anthony and Clemons.
March 2006Thunderstorm WindClemons$5,000no account filed
August 2003HailClemons$5,000no account filed
August 2004HailClemons$3,000no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindClemons$2,000no account filed
July 2018Funnel CloudClemons-Law enforcement reported a funnel cloud.
May 2013Funnel CloudClemons-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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
Bromley1.4 miles9
Saint Anthony2.1 miles9
Minerva3.6 miles9
Bangor5.3 miles9
Illinois Grove6.4 miles9
Moningers6.5 miles9
State Center6.7 miles9
LaMoille8.5 miles9

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 ClemonsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1944977The 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 455471. 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.