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Clifford, Indiana

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Flat Rock Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47226. It stands on Slash-Loesch Ditch. The Survey maps it on the Hope quadrangle. 205 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 659 feet above sea level.

Clifford within Bartholomew County

Population over time

2 figures

Clifford fell from 233 to 205 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
2010233
2020205-28 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

6 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Clifford between 2001 and 2005, burning about 13 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/undetermined5
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
16 June 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
19 April 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
3 November 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
14 November 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
2 October 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
15 October 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bartholomew 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 Clifford: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Carter Gravel CompanySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Bartholomew County

Storms near this place

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clifford in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2015: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2015Thunderstorm WindClifford$20,000Large trees were downed and a semi-truck was blown over due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindClifford-A thunderstorm wind gust, measured at 59 mph, was reported from this location.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindClifford-Trees and power lines were downed.
April 2006HailClifford-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindClifford-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bartholomew 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
Northcliff0.7 miles15
Nortonburg2.6 miles15
Saint Louis Crossing2.8 miles15
Flat Rock Park3.2 miles15
Parkside3.8 miles14
Everroad Park3.9 miles14
Riverview Acres3.9 miles14
North Columbus4.0 miles14

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 CliffordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2856336The 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 432650. 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.