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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.

Clermont within Fayette County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Clermont 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.

YearPeople Change
2010632
2020586-46 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

4 since 2009

Regional 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/undetermined3
Debris and open burning1

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
18 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resources7257 GOLDEN ROAD ELGIN, IA 52141, IOWA
8 October 2014Debris and open burning10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fayette County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hanson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Quinn QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Thoma QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Williams QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Baird PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Clermont Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Durscher PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Miller PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Fayette County

Storms near this place

18 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2016FloodClermont$200,000Runoff 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 2017Thunderstorm WindClermont$35,000Trees 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 2000Thunderstorm WindClermont$15,000no account filed
September 2016FloodClermont$5,000Runoff 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 1994Tornado (F0)Clermont$5,000Strong 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 1995Thunderstorm WindClermont$5,000no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindClermont$4,500no account filed
May 2000HailClermont$4,000no account filed
August 2021Thunderstorm WindClermont$2,000The top portion of a pine tree was snapped off and another tree was split in Clermont.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindClermont$2,000no account filed
March 2019FloodClermont-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 2018FloodClermont-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 2016FloodClermont-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 2014FloodClermont-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 2012HailClermont-Quarter sized hail fell in Clermont.
August 2009Funnel CloudClermont-no account filed
July 2009HailClermont-no account filed
March 2005HailClermont-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fayette 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
Elgin3.4 miles12
Dover Mills (historical)4.2 miles11
Brainard5.7 miles12
Illyria7.3 miles12
West Union8.7 miles12
Eldorado10.2 miles11
Lima10.5 miles12
Albany11.1 miles12

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 ClermontAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1934215The 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.