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Clitherall, Minnesota

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Clitherall City. It lies in ZIP code area 56524. The Survey maps it on the Battle Lake quadrangle. 62 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,348 feet above sea level.

Clitherall within Otter Tail County

Population over time

2 figures

Clitherall fell from 112 to 62 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
2010112
202062-50 (-45%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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.

In the county-history sources

72 words on this township

Otter Tail County, Minnesota, in the World War;, published 1919 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Clitherall City covers the township.

Read the chapter on Clitherall City - 72 words.

Fires near this place

5 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Clitherall between 1992 and 2010, burning about 50 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
Debris and open burning3
Smoking1
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
5 April 1992Smokingunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 April 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 April 2006Debris and open burning3.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 April 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 December 2002Debris and open burning44 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otter Tail County

Storms near this place

12 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clitherall in 12 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 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
June 2025Tornado (EFU)Clitherall-Photo evidence from chasers and reports called in via trained spotters indicate a brief tornado in this area with no damage reported.
July 2023HailClitherall-Hail between ping pong ball sized and golf ball sized.
July 2023HailClitherall-MPING report of quarter sized hail 3 ENE of Clitherall.
July 2023HailClitherall-MPING report from same location outside of Clitherall of ping-pong ball sized hail.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindClitherall-Several large branches were down and power lines were damaged.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindClitherall-A peak wind of 68 mph was measured at a personal weather station on the north central shore of West Battle Lake.
May 2022Tornado (EF0)Clitherall-This tornado began about 3 miles north northeast of Clitherall, MN as a waterspout on West Mason Lake and lasted for about a minute. The area showed several large 6-10 inch diameter tree branches broken along the north shore. Peak winds were estimated at 85 mph, giving this tornado an EF0 rating, with a path length of 1 mile.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindClitherall-Large branches were blown down.
August 2018HailClitherall-Dime to half dollar sized hail fell.
August 2018HailClitherall-no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindClitherall-no account filed
July 1999Thunderstorm WindClitherall-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Otter Tail 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
Nirvana2.7 miles13
Battle Lake4.4 miles13
Vining5.1 miles13
Woodland Park5.7 miles13
Inglewood5.9 miles13
Henning10.4 miles9
Ottertail11.1 miles13
Amor11.3 miles13

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 ClitherallAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1022994The 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 641341. 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.