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.
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
Clarks Grove Cooperative Creamerylisted 1986
Population over time
2 figuresClarks 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 706 | |
| 2020 | 694 | -12 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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.
- 1954 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Mason City quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Ellendale quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Albert Lea quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Don Wayne | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Don Wayne Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
17 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarks Grove | - | Several trees and large tree branches were blown down east of Clarks Grove. |
| June 2015 | Flash Flood | Clarks 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 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarks Grove | - | Power was lost in the town of Clarks Grove due to a severe wind gust. |
| June 2010 | Tornado (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 2007 | Funnel Cloud | Clarks Grove | - | Funnel cloud was in dissipation stage. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarks Grove | - | A 60 MPH wind gust was measured by a HAM radio operator at the intersection of county roads 20 and 31. |
| June 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Clarks Grove | - | Remained over farm fields. Crop damage. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Clarks Grove | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Clarks Grove | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Clarks Grove | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Clarks Grove | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Clarks Grove | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Clarks Grove | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Clarks Grove | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Hail | Clarks Grove | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Clarks Grove | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Funnel Cloud | Clarks Grove | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lerdal | 4.2 miles | 10 | |
| Bancroft | 4.5 miles | 10 | |
| Geneva | 5.2 miles | 7 | |
| Bath | 5.3 miles | 7 | |
| Hollandale | 6.6 miles | 7 | |
| Manchester | 7.0 miles | 10 | |
| Muckland | 7.5 miles | 9 | |
| South Hollandale | 8.0 miles | 9 |
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 Grove | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q740912 | 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 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.




