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Clarks Grove, Minnesota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Clarks Grove City. It lies in ZIP code area 56016. The Survey maps it on the Ellendale quadrangle. 694 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,312 feet above sea level.

Clarks Grove within Freeborn County

On record in Clarks Grove

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

Clarks Grove fell from 706 to 694 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
2010706
2020694-12 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Clarks Grove: 2 producers. 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
Don WayneSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Don Wayne PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Freeborn County

Storms near this place

17 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clarks Grove in 17 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 9 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud, 2 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
July 2019Thunderstorm WindClarks Grove-Several trees and large tree branches were blown down east of Clarks Grove.
June 2015Flash FloodClarks Grove-Two to three inches of rain fell in a small area of north central Freeborn County near Clarks Grove. There was a picture from social media of a flooded park which had 2-3 feet of standing water, which affected a large part of the outdoor shelter and play area.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindClarks Grove-Power was lost in the town of Clarks Grove due to a severe wind gust.
June 2010Tornado (EF1)Clarks Grove-This tornado touched down near the intersection of Interstate 35 and Freeborn County Road 31. Multiple outbuildings were destroyed and numerous large trees were broken or toppled. It exited Freeborn County just north of Geneva, where it continued into Steele County.
June 2007Funnel CloudClarks Grove-Funnel cloud was in dissipation stage.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindClarks Grove-A 60 MPH wind gust was measured by a HAM radio operator at the intersection of county roads 20 and 31.
June 1998Tornado (F0)Clarks Grove-Remained over farm fields. Crop damage.
May 2022HailClarks Grove-no account filed
May 2017HailClarks Grove-no account filed
June 2015HailClarks Grove-no account filed
June 2015HailClarks Grove-no account filed
May 2014HailClarks Grove-no account filed
June 2007HailClarks Grove-no account filed
June 2007HailClarks Grove-no account filed
August 2006HailClarks Grove-no account filed
June 2004HailClarks Grove-no account filed
July 1997Funnel CloudClarks Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Freeborn 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
Lerdal4.2 miles10
Bancroft4.5 miles10
Geneva5.2 miles7
Bath5.3 miles7
Hollandale6.6 miles7
Manchester7.0 miles10
Muckland7.5 miles9
South Hollandale8.0 miles9

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 Clarks GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q740912The 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 641253. 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.

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.