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.
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
Milwaukee Chicago St. Paul and Pacific Depotlisted 1986
Population over time
2 figuresClinton 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 449 | |
| 2020 | 386 | -63 (-14%) |
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.
- 1953 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Ortonville quadrangle1:62500
- 1958 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Clinton quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Milbank quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 2003Regional 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 use | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Morris National Wildlife Refuge | WAGNER WPA |
| 1 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 18 acres | Morris National Wildlife Refuge | GOLDSMITH WPA |
Storms near this place
26 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1996 | Tornado (F3) | Clinton | $1,500,000 | no account filed |
| October 2021 | Tornado (EF0) | Clinton | - | The Graceville, MN Fire Department observed a tornado. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clinton | - | Some trees were downed in Clinton by seventy mph winds. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clinton | - | Multiple trees were uprooted and snapped in Clinton by estimated eighty mph winds. |
| June 2017 | Tornado (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 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clinton | - | Sixty mph winds were estimated. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clinton | - | Estimated sixty mph winds caused damage to crops. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clinton | - | Eighty mph winds downed several trees with several telephone poles leaning. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clinton | - | A very large cottonwood tree was uprooted by ninety mph winds. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clinton | - | Numerous large trees were downed on a farm southeast of Clinton. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clinton | - | 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 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clinton | - | A large cottonwood tree was downed by the very strong winds. |
| July 1994 | Hail | Clinton | - | 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 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clinton | - | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Hail | Clinton | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clinton | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Clinton | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Clinton | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Clinton | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Clinton | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clinton | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Clinton | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Hail | Clinton | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Clinton | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Clinton | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Hail | Clinton | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Stone Colony | 5.2 miles | 8 | |
| Lagoona Beach | 7.0 miles | 7 | |
| Graceville | 7.5 miles | 8 | |
| Barry | 9.5 miles | 12 | |
| Johnson | 10.7 miles | 8 | |
| Ortonville | 10.7 miles | 7 | |
| Cashtown | 11.2 miles | 7 | |
| Foster | 13.2 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 Clinton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2346791 | 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 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.




