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Clay City, Indiana

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Harrison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47841. The Survey maps it on the Clay City quadrangle. 878 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 594 feet above sea level.

Clay City within Clay County

On record in Clay City

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Clay City grew from 861 to 878 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
2010861
2020878+17 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Clay City in 2003, burning about 1 acre in total. 1 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
Natural1
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
15 July 2003Naturalunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
10 November 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Clay City: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Clay City PlantFire Clay (Refractory)Producer

Every working recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

13 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clay City in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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
June 2024Thunderstorm WindClay City$100,000Strong thunderstorm wind gusts knocked over corn crop and snapped large old growth trees over plus several large limbs of others landing on power lines with enough force to snap the cables. 1 tree landed across a lane of in sr 246.
June 2006LightningClay City$50,000A lightning strike set a home ablaze and killed a breeder calf standing 60 yards away from the home.
July 2001Flash FloodClay City$20,000no account filed
June 2019Thunderstorm WindClay City$10,000Several large trees were uprooted and numerous tree limbs were snapped with power outages reported in Clay City due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
April 2000Thunderstorm WindClay City$10,000no account filed
October 2010Thunderstorm WindClay City$1,000Clay City News reported a large tree down in Goshorn Park due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. Clay City experienced power outages.
July 2008Flash FloodClay City$1,000Heavy rain flooded the streets of Clay City to as much as 3 feet deep in some areas.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindClay City$500no account filed
March 2026Thunderstorm WindClay City-A 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was estimated at this location.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindClay City-Trees were downed.
April 2010HailClay City-no account filed
April 2003HailClay City-no account filed
August 2001HailClay City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Middlebury0.9 miles16
Danville1.4 miles16
Barrick Corner2.5 miles16
Eel River3.3 miles16
New Brunswick4.9 miles18
Old Hill5.3 miles17
Brunswick5.5 miles18
Saline City6.2 miles17

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 Clay CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3293413The 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 432585. 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.