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.
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
Aqueduct Bridgelisted 2000
Feeder Dam Bridgelisted 2000
Jeffers Bridgelisted 2000
Population over time
2 figuresClay 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 861 | |
| 2020 | 878 | +17 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 16 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.
- 1908 USGS Clay City quadrangle1:48000
- 1910 USGS Clay City quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Clay City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Clay City quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Terre Haute quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2003Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 July 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 10 November 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clay City Plant | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Producer |
Storms near this place
13 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clay City | $100,000 | Strong 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 2006 | Lightning | Clay City | $50,000 | A lightning strike set a home ablaze and killed a breeder calf standing 60 yards away from the home. |
| July 2001 | Flash Flood | Clay City | $20,000 | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clay City | $10,000 | Several large trees were uprooted and numerous tree limbs were snapped with power outages reported in Clay City due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| April 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clay City | $10,000 | no account filed |
| October 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clay City | $1,000 | Clay City News reported a large tree down in Goshorn Park due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. Clay City experienced power outages. |
| July 2008 | Flash Flood | Clay City | $1,000 | Heavy rain flooded the streets of Clay City to as much as 3 feet deep in some areas. |
| April 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clay City | $500 | no account filed |
| March 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clay City | - | A 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was estimated at this location. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clay City | - | Trees were downed. |
| April 2010 | Hail | Clay City | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Clay City | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Clay City | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middlebury | 0.9 miles | 16 | |
| Danville | 1.4 miles | 16 | |
| Barrick Corner | 2.5 miles | 16 | |
| Eel River | 3.3 miles | 16 | |
| New Brunswick | 4.9 miles | 18 | |
| Old Hill | 5.3 miles | 17 | |
| Brunswick | 5.5 miles | 18 | |
| Saline City | 6.2 miles | 17 |
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 City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3293413 | 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 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.








