Clara City, Minnesota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Clara City City. It lies in ZIP code area 56222. The Survey maps it on the Clara City quadrangle. 1,423 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,056 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresClara City grew from 1,360 to 1,423 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 | 1,360 | |
| 2020 | 1,423 | +63 (+5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1953 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Clara City quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Montevideo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
28 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clara City in 28 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 13 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 3 funnel cloud, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clara City | $250,000 | Chimney blown through roof of grocery store. Trees down. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Clara City | - | There was a social media picture of 1.5 inch hail. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clara City | - | More sporadic damage to trees and sheds northwest of Raymond. |
| August 2020 | Funnel Cloud | Clara City | - | A spotter observed a funnel cloud for several minutes before it dissipated. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clara City | - | A Minnesota Department of Transportation wind sensor west of Clara City, Minnesota, measured wind gusts over 60 mph for a period of 10 minutes. The peak wind was 63 mph. |
| May 2013 | Funnel Cloud | Clara City | - | A storm chaser video taped a funnel cloud for approximately two minutes. The chaser was located 1/4 mile south of the intersection of Minnesota Highway 40 and 130th Avenue Northeast, just inside Chippewa County, looking south-southeast. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Clara City | - | Several areas north, and south of Clara City, Minnesota, reported baseball size hail. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clara City | - | Measured by the MNDOT Road Weather sensor along Highway 7. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clara City | - | Several large trees two to three feet in diameter toppled. Damage occurred at 8030 30th SE. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clara City | - | Measured by MNDOT road weather sensor. |
| May 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Clara City | - | A tornado was reported by a storm chaser on the ground for 1 ½ minutes just south of the intersection of County Road 3 and the Swift/Chippewa County border, about 4 miles south of Murdock. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clara City | - | Large branches were downed. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clara City | - | Estimated winds. A few trees toppled. |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clara City | - | Power lines down. Estimated windspeed. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clara City | - | Trees blown down. Estimated windspeed. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Clara City | - | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clara City | - | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clara City | - | no account filed |
| September 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clara City | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Clara City | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Clara City | - | no account filed |
| August 2012 | Hail | Clara City | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Clara City | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Clara City | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Clara City | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Funnel Cloud | Clara City | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Clara City | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Hail | Clara 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.
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 Clara City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2334009 | 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 641238. 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.
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.





