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Clinton, Minnesota

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Clinton City. It lies in ZIP code area 56225. The Survey maps it on the Clinton quadrangle. 386 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,152 feet above sea level.

Clinton within Big Stone County

On record in Clinton

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

Clinton fell from 449 to 386 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
2010449
2020386-63 (-14%)

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.

Fires near this place

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Clinton between 2003 and 2005, burning about 24 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
7 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresMorris National Wildlife RefugeWAGNER WPA
1 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use18 acresMorris National Wildlife RefugeGOLDSMITH WPA

Every fire recorded in Big Stone County

Storms near this place

26 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clinton in 26 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 12 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 3 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
May 1996Tornado (F3)Clinton$1,500,000no account filed
October 2021Tornado (EF0)Clinton-The Graceville, MN Fire Department observed a tornado.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindClinton-Some trees were downed in Clinton by seventy mph winds.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindClinton-Multiple trees were uprooted and snapped in Clinton by estimated eighty mph winds.
June 2017Tornado (EF1)Clinton-Storm chasers and residents observed a brief tornado on the leading edge of a line of storms. The tornado moved over one farmstead damaging multiple structures. Over half of the tin roof was ripped from the house along with considerable damage to the siding of the house. One machine shed was completely destroyed. Another machine shed had damage to the southward facing walls and lost over half of the roof. A third machine shed had extensive damage to the westward facing walls and lost over half of the roof. An empty grain bin was completely removed from the cement base and an attached auger was toppled. Another grain bin was dented at the top. One power pole was snapped, with other poles downed due to the weight of the wires. Widespread tree damage including snapped trunks, uprooted trees, and large broken branches occurred on the property. A small area of corn crop was razed to the ground. Some debris was driven into the ground, while other debris was lofted roughly 2000 feet to the northeast.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindClinton-Sixty mph winds were estimated.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindClinton-Estimated sixty mph winds caused damage to crops.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindClinton-Eighty mph winds downed several trees with several telephone poles leaning.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindClinton-A very large cottonwood tree was uprooted by ninety mph winds.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindClinton-Numerous large trees were downed on a farm southeast of Clinton.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindClinton-Eighty mph winds plus caused widespread tree and structural damage on a farm southeast of Clinton. Many trees were downed. Two outbuildings lost their roofs with significant damage to one of the outbuildings. A garage was completely moved off of its foundation and destroyed.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindClinton-A large cottonwood tree was downed by the very strong winds.
July 1994HailClinton-The combination of large hail and strong winds destroyed over 120,000 acres of crops. Estimated damage costs were up to $15 million across Big Stone County
June 2022Thunderstorm WindClinton-no account filed
July 2018HailClinton-no account filed
June 2017Thunderstorm WindClinton-no account filed
May 2014HailClinton-no account filed
July 2010HailClinton-no account filed
July 2010HailClinton-no account filed
August 2004HailClinton-no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindClinton-no account filed
June 2003HailClinton-no account filed
July 1998HailClinton-no account filed
May 1996HailClinton-no account filed
May 1996HailClinton-no account filed
July 1996HailClinton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Big Stone 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
Big Stone Colony5.2 miles8
Lagoona Beach7.0 miles7
Graceville7.5 miles8
Barry9.5 miles12
Johnson10.7 miles8
Ortonville10.7 miles7
Cashtown11.2 miles7
Foster13.2 miles8

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 ClintonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2346791The 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 641338. 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.

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.