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Clearbrook, Minnesota

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Clearbrook City. It lies in ZIP code area 56634. The Survey maps it on the Clearbrook quadrangle. 464 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,348 feet above sea level.

Clearbrook within Clearwater County

Population over time

2 figures

Clearbrook fell from 518 to 464 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
2010518
2020464-54 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

63 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Clearbrook between 1992 and 2020, burning about 245 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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 burning39
Arson/incendiarism11
Equipment and vehicle use7
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Smoking1

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
8 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 September 2012Debris and open burning1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 June 2009Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 June 1992Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 May 1992Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 May 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 May 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 1996Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clearwater County

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 Clearbrook: 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
Anderson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Thompson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Clearwater County

Storms near this place

22 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clearbrook in 22 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 10 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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 2002Flash FloodClearbrook$350,000Water flowed over streets and roads as 7 to 11 inches of rain fell. Most of the road damage occurred along Silver Creek. The city park and 3 homes were also flooded. Several roads were washed out in Itasca State Park.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindClearbrook$1,000Trees were blown down.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindClearbrook-Public reports medium-sized branches down and pea-sized hail 3 NE Clearbrook. Wind speed estimated.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindClearbrook-A small tree was blown down in town.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindClearbrook-Very heavy rain and strong winds were reported along with pea to marble sized hail.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindClearbrook-Pine trees were blown down.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindClearbrook-Winds blew down two large oak trees and seven cottonwood trees, which blocked a road. There was a significant amount of quarter to half inch hail, sufficient to drift and remain on the ground until evening.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindClearbrook-A few large five to eight inch diameter tree limbs and numerous smaller branches were blown down by the strong winds.
June 2010Tornado (EF1)Clearbrook-The tornado tracked northward for roughly a mile. Several large trees were knocked down onto power lines and one power pole was snapped along highway 92. Peak winds were estimated at 100 mph.
May 2009HailClearbrook-The hail persisted for a half an hour with heavy rain.
June 2007Tornado (EF0)Clearbrook-Muliple brief waterspouts were observed near Peterson Lake.
June 2007FloodClearbrook-Basement flooding was reported due to the steady rain.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindClearbrook-3 inch diameter tree branches were blown down.
September 2019HailClearbrook-no account filed
August 2015HailClearbrook-no account filed
May 2009HailClearbrook-no account filed
August 2007HailClearbrook-no account filed
August 2004HailClearbrook-no account filed
July 2001HailClearbrook-no account filed
June 1999HailClearbrook-no account filed
July 1999HailClearbrook-no account filed
June 1996HailClearbrook-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clearwater 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
Gonvick5.4 miles10
Weme6.6 miles10
Winsor (historical)7.7 miles11
Berner8.1 miles10
Leonard8.9 miles10
Bagley11.9 miles10
Shevlin14.4 miles10
Ebro14.5 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 ClearbrookAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2297741The 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 641310. 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.