Clementson, Minnesota

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1976. It stands in Gudrid Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56623. It stands on Rapid River. The Survey maps it on the Clementson quadrangle. It stands 1,093 feet above sea level.

Clementson within Lake of the Woods County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 6 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.

1954 USGS Roseau quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Roseau quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Roseau quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Clementson quadrangle1:24000
1976 USGS Baudette quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

43 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Clementson between 1992 and 2020, burning about 276 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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 burning	28
Arson/incendiarism	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
3 September 2006	Debris and open burning	152 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	CLEMENTSON FIRE
20 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
12 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 August 2011	Debris and open burning	1.3 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 August 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
24 August 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
24 August 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
17 August 2006	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Baudette

Every fire recorded in Lake of the Woods 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 Clementson: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Peat. 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
	Lake of the Woods County Peat Bogs	Peat	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Lake of the Woods County

Storms near this place

10 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clementson in 10 storm reports between 2002 and 2023: 6 hail, 4 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Clementson	$500,000	A microburst damage area was produced across the northeast quarter of section 30 in Rapid River Township. The downburst initiated across the southwest corner of a farmstead and projected to the east and northeast across the farmyard. A steel pole shed was torn open and demolished with debris impacted and denting several steel grain bins along the east end of the yard. Several pine trees and two power poles in the yard were snapped by the wind. Peak winds were estimated at 95 to 105 mph.
June 2023	Hail	Clementson	-	Public reports quarter sized hail 9 miles east southeast of Baudette.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Clementson	-	Large branches were blown down.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Clementson	-	Minnesota DNR aerial photos showed large areas of blowdown timber, stretching along a southwest to northeast diagonal from about 26 miles south of Williams, near the Beltrami County line, to this location southwest of Clementson. Hundreds of pine trees appeared to have been blown down in successive microbursts along the overall downburst path.
August 2018	Hail	Clementson	-	Very heavy rain, dime to quarter sized hail, and gusty winds hit northwest Rapid River Township in Lake of the Woods County. Several large tree branches were blown down by the wind.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Clementson	-	Numerous trees were twisted and snapped at the Clementson resort.
June 2016	Hail	Clementson	-	Nickel to golf ball sized hail covered the ground across northern Rapid River Township.
May 2008	Hail	Clementson	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Clementson	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Clementson	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lake of the Woods 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Baudette	8.8 miles	8
Pitt	16.0 miles	8
Carp	17.0 miles	8
Wheelers Point	17.2 miles	7
Hackett	17.3 miles	7
Graceton	21.5 miles	8
Williams	28.0 miles	8
Faunce	28.2 miles	8

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 Clementson	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5131521	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 641327. 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.