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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.

Clara City within Chippewa County

Population over time

2 figures

Clara 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,360
20201,423+63 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

Storms near this place

28 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1998Thunderstorm WindClara City$250,000Chimney blown through roof of grocery store. Trees down.
May 2022HailClara City-There was a social media picture of 1.5 inch hail.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindClara City-More sporadic damage to trees and sheds northwest of Raymond.
August 2020Funnel CloudClara City-A spotter observed a funnel cloud for several minutes before it dissipated.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindClara 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 2013Funnel CloudClara 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 2010HailClara City-Several areas north, and south of Clara City, Minnesota, reported baseball size hail.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindClara City-Measured by the MNDOT Road Weather sensor along Highway 7.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindClara City-Several large trees two to three feet in diameter toppled. Damage occurred at 8030 30th SE.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindClara City-Measured by MNDOT road weather sensor.
May 2005Tornado (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 2004Thunderstorm WindClara City-Large branches were downed.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindClara City-Estimated winds. A few trees toppled.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindClara City-Power lines down. Estimated windspeed.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindClara City-Trees blown down. Estimated windspeed.
June 2025HailClara City-no account filed
July 2022Thunderstorm WindClara City-no account filed
July 2022Thunderstorm WindClara City-no account filed
September 2017Thunderstorm WindClara City-no account filed
July 2017HailClara City-no account filed
July 2017HailClara City-no account filed
August 2012HailClara City-no account filed
June 2007HailClara City-no account filed
April 2002HailClara City-no account filed
April 2002HailClara City-no account filed
June 1998Funnel CloudClara City-no account filed
July 1996HailClara City-no account filed
August 1996HailClara City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chippewa 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
Bunde3.3 miles9
Gluek6.0 miles9
Maynard6.4 miles9
Asbury10.3 miles9
Louriston10.6 miles10
Gracelock13.1 miles10
Wegdahl15.4 miles10
Montevideo19.0 miles10

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 CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2334009The 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.