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Clarissa, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Clarissa City. It lies in ZIP code area 56440. The Survey maps it on the Clarissa quadrangle. 661 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,322 feet above sea level.

Clarissa within Todd County

On record in Clarissa

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

Clarissa fell from 681 to 661 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
2010681
2020661-20 (-3%)

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.

Fires near this place

36 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Clarissa between 1992 and 2010, burning about 353 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 were 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 burning16
Arson/incendiarism10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use3

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
22 June 1997Smoking1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 1992Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 1994Debris and open burning2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 1994Debris and open burning2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 May 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 May 1992Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 May 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 May 2003Arson/incendiarism12 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Todd 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 Clarissa: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
Sanders PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Todd County

Storms near this place

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clarissa in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 4 hail, 3 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2022Tornado (EF1)Clarissa-Hundreds of trees were uprooted or broken. Several outbuildings lost roofs. The damage pattern in this part of Todd County was very complicated, but ground and aerial surveys revealed a tornado moved through part of Clarissa. Maximum winds were estimated at 90 mph.
July 2017Tornado (EF0)Clarissa-Several hundred trees were toppled or broken. A few trees landed on power lines. One old barn collapsed, but no other structural damage was noted or reported.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindClarissa-Several trees and power lines were blown down near Clarissa.
August 2004Tornado (F0)Clarissa-An off-duty police officer witnessed a brief touchdown of a tornado near the intersection of county routes 11 and 14. No damage was reported.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindClarissa-Scattered trees down, including one on a vehicle.
June 2024HailClarissa-no account filed
July 2019HailClarissa-no account filed
August 2001HailClarissa-no account filed
July 1996HailClarissa-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Todd 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
Browerville5.4 miles9
Eagle Bend5.4 miles9
Clotho9.1 miles9
Bertha11.2 miles9
Long Prairie11.6 miles9
Gutches Grove12.9 miles8
Hewitt15.3 miles9
Round Prairie15.9 miles8

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 ClarissaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2372830The 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 641242. 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.