BlockClements, Minnesota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Three Lakes Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56224. The Survey maps it on the Clements quadrangle. 155 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,050 feet above sea level.
On record in Clements
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 2 records
Clements State Bank Buildinglisted 1980- District No. 8 Schoollisted 1980
Population over time
2 figuresClements grew from 153 to 155 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 | 153 | |
| 2020 | 155 | +2 (+1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1953 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Clements quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Tracy quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
522 words on this townshipThe History of Redwood County, Minnesota, published 1916 names this settlement in its chapter on Three Lakes Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Three Lakes township is located in the east-central part of Redwood county, and embraces Congressional township 111-35. It is bounded on the north by Paxton, on the east by Morgan, on the south by Sundown and on the west by New Avon. The Evan-Marshall branch of the Chicago and Northwestern crosses it in the southern part; and the Sleepy Eye-Redwood Falls branch of the same road passes through the northeast corner. The surface is smooth prairie land. There are two lakes of fairly good size in this township. The only village is Clements. The trading centers are Morgan and Redwood Falls, in Redwood county, and Springfield in Brown county. There are four school houses. The predominating nationality is German, with quite a few Bohemians.
Passage source: The History of Redwood County, Minnesota, published 1916.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Storms near this place
11 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clements in 11 storm reports between 1998 and 2019: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clements | $10,000 | Several large trees were uprooted north of Springfield, Minnesota. Based on photos, some damage occurred to a farm with structural damage to siding, and garage. In addition, corn was stripped and beans were flattened. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clements | $10,000 | Several large trees were blown down from near Clements, to one mile north of Clements, including one tree that fell on a car. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Clements | - | The Farm Service Agency office for Redwood County indicated a one to three mile wide swath of hail as large as golf balls fell across southeastern Redwood County, with many crops heavily damaged or destroyed. Time estimated based on radar. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clements | - | Scattered trees and power lines were blown down at County Road 4 and 13. |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clements | - | Three to four inch diameter tree branch felled. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clements | - | Tin roof peeled back on building at Clements lumber. Some trees and branches also reported down in Clements. As reported by Sanborn Sentinel newspaper. |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clements | - | Shingles off roof. |
| June 1998 | Tornado (F1) | Clements | - | 5 barns damaged. One roof ripped from a barn. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clements | - | Trees blown onto houses and vehicles. Estimated windspeed. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clements | - | Power lines down. Estimated windspeed. |
| August 2009 | Hail | Clements | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rowena | 5.3 miles | 9 | |
| Gilfillan | 6.2 miles | 10 | |
| Morgan | 7.2 miles | 10 | |
| Wanda | 9.6 miles | 9 | |
| Wabasso | 10.9 miles | 10 | |
| Redwood Falls | 11.4 miles | 13 | |
| Sanborn | 12.5 miles | 9 | |
| North Redwood | 12.7 miles | 13 |
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 Clements | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2188877 | 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 641326. 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.