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Clarkson, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Clarkson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42726. The Survey maps it on the Clarkson quadrangle. 933 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 728 feet above sea level.

Clarkson within Grayson County

On record in Clarkson

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Clarkson grew from 875 to 933 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
2010875
2020933+58 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

16 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Clarkson between 2000 and 2018, burning about 118 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
2 April 2011Recreation and ceremony15 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTIMBERLAND FIRE
18 April 2013Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGRAYSON SPRINGS
5 March 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 March 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBLOCK CITY
27 March 2014Debris and open burning25 acresKentucky Division of ForestryROCKCREEK
24 March 2014Debris and open burning1.5 acresKentucky Division of ForestryOAK GRAVE
20 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grayson 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 Clarkson: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Ragland Mine & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Grayson County

Storms near this place

22 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clarkson in 22 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 3 heavy rain, 3 flash flood. 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 2024HailClarkson-Golf ball sized hail was observed near Clarkson.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindClarkson-A 20x50 foot pole barn was destroyed by strong winds a mile north of Clarkson.
March 2020Flash FloodClarkson-Millerstown Road in Clarkson was closed due to high water.
July 2020Flash FloodClarkson-There was water flowing over Millerstown Road and Highway 224 near Clarkson, Kentucky.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindClarkson-The media reported on tree and power pole damage near Highway 920 and Highway 62.
July 2019HailClarkson-One inch hail was reported by the media.
April 2016FloodClarkson-A trained spotter reported 2 to 4 inches of water flowing over portions of highway 224.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindClarkson-A Kentucky state official reported to the NWS of several trees down on Clifty Avenue in Clarkson.
October 2014HailClarkson-A Facebook image showed quarter sized hail that fell in Clarkson.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindClarkson-Several trees were blown down in the Leitchfield and Clarkson areas of Grayson county.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindClarkson-A trained spotter reported a gust of 60 mph.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindClarkson-A barn roof was partially removed along US 62.
June 2009Heavy RainClarkson-Heavy rain of 2.50 inches over a couple of hours caused some minor flooding in Clarkson.
February 2008Thunderstorm WindClarkson-Thunderstorm winds downed large tree limbs.
January 2008Flash FloodClarkson-Six inches of water covered some roadways. Some yards were under water.
August 2003Heavy RainClarkson-Highway 224 was flooded in spots in eastern Grayson County.
June 2011HailClarkson-no account filed
May 2010HailClarkson-no account filed
April 2009HailClarkson-no account filed
May 2009Heavy RainClarkson-no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindClarkson-no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindClarkson-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grayson 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
West Clifty2.2 miles18
Grayson Springs2.5 miles12
Fragrant3.9 miles12
Leitchfield4.0 miles13
Saint Paul4.1 miles18
Skaggstown4.6 miles12
Tar Hill4.9 miles18
Big Clifty5.0 miles18

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 ClarksonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2108003The 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 489558. 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.