Clermont, Iowa
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Clermont Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52135. It stands on Dibble Creek. The Survey maps it on the Castalia quadrangle. 586 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 860 feet above sea level.
On record in Clermont
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 6 records
Abraham Lincoln Statue and Parklisted 2000
Bigler Buildinglisted 1995
Church of the Saviour Episcopal Church and David Henderson Statuelisted 2000
Clermont Public Schoollisted 1995
Montauklisted 1973
Union Sunday Schoollisted 1974
Population over time
2 figuresClermont fell from 632 to 586 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 | 632 | |
| 2020 | 586 | -46 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1906 USGS Decorah quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
- 1976 USGS La Crosse quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Castalia quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Decorah quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Clermont between 2009 and 2014, burning about 12 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/undetermined | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 April 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 11 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 March 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | 7257 GOLDEN ROAD ELGIN, IA 52141, IOWA |
| 8 October 2014 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 13 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Clermont: 7 past producers, 3 producers, 3 unknowns. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hanson Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Quinn Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Thoma Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Williams Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Baird Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Clermont Pit & Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Durscher Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Miller Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
18 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clermont in 18 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 6 thunderstorm wind, 6 flood, 4 hail, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2016 | Flood | Clermont | $200,000 | Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Turkey River out of its banks in Clermont. The river crested over six feet above the flood stage at 22.32 feet. The flood waters damaged the waste water treatment facility. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clermont | $35,000 | Trees were blown down in Clermont. At least one tree landed on a house and another destroyed a garage. Numerous trees and power lines were blown down in a campground on the southwest edge of town. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clermont | $15,000 | no account filed |
| September 2016 | Flood | Clermont | $5,000 | Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Turkey River out of its banks near Clermont. The river crested less than a foot over the flood stage at 16.95 feet. |
| July 1994 | Tornado (F0) | Clermont | $5,000 | Strong upper air dynamics combined with a cold front moved into Iowa. The airmass remained very unstable with surface dew point temperatures in the lower to middle 70s. The moisture layer was deep with 850 mb dew point temperatures around 15° C. Thunderstorms occurred during the early morning hours over western Iowa. The outflow boundary from that complex advanced into the central part of the state by sunrise. Thunderstorms developed throughout the day along this outflow boundary. During the afternoon hours they became severe. Several tornadoes were spawned. Two weak tornadoes touched down briefly in north central Iowa. One was in Winnebago County, the other in Worth County. Neither of them caused any significant damage as they occurred in open country. A fairly strong tornado touched down in Chickasaw County. The tornado touched down southwest of New Hampton and tracked northeast. It his a truck repair shop at the intersection of U.S. Highway 63 and County Highway B54. The roof was removed from the repair facility. Most of the tornado track was through open country, which kept damage to a minimum. The same parent storm caused high winds at the intersection of U.S. Highway 63 and Iowa Highway 18. The winds removed the roof from a car wash there and also damaged several cars in the parking lot there. Debris from the tornado broke windows and punctured the tires on two trucks in the lot. Another tornado made a cameo touchdown in a field north of Clermont in Fayette County. In addition to the tornadoes, there were a few other funnel cloud reports. None of these touched down to become tornadoes. Many of the storms over the east half of the state produced gusty winds and small hail. Only a few were strong enough to become severe. One storm caused wind damage in Bremer County. High winds blew the roof off of a barn and downed trees and power lines south of Plainfield. Another storm uprooted several trees in Waverly. Damage of $10,000-$15,000 was reported in Fredericksburg as high winds damaged the roof of a service station. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clermont | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clermont | $4,500 | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Clermont | $4,000 | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clermont | $2,000 | The top portion of a pine tree was snapped off and another tree was split in Clermont. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clermont | $2,000 | no account filed |
| March 2019 | Flood | Clermont | - | Runoff from rain and melting snow pushed the Turkey River out of its banks near Clermont. The river crested less than a foot above the flood stage at 826.41 feet on March 15th. |
| May 2018 | Flood | Clermont | - | Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Turkey River out of its banks in Clermont. The river crested less than a foot above the flood stage at 826.26 feet. |
| September 2016 | Flood | Clermont | - | Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Turkey River out of its banks in Clermont. The river crested a foot and a half above the flood stage at 17.66 feet. |
| June 2014 | Flood | Clermont | - | Runoff from heavy rain pushed the Turkey River out of its banks over the northeast part of Fayette County. The high water threatened campgrounds in both Clermont and Elgin. |
| September 2012 | Hail | Clermont | - | Quarter sized hail fell in Clermont. |
| August 2009 | Funnel Cloud | Clermont | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Clermont | - | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Hail | Clermont | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elgin | 3.4 miles | 12 | |
| Dover Mills (historical) | 4.2 miles | 11 | |
| Brainard | 5.7 miles | 12 | |
| Illyria | 7.3 miles | 12 | |
| West Union | 8.7 miles | 12 | |
| Eldorado | 10.2 miles | 11 | |
| Lima | 10.5 miles | 12 | |
| Albany | 11.1 miles | 12 |
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 Clermont | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1934215 | 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 455473. 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.






