Clarence, Missouri
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Clay Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63437. The Survey maps it on the Clarence quadrangle. 738 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 820 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresClarence fell from 813 to 738 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 | 813 | |
| 2020 | 738 | -75 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 11 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.
- 1908 USGS Macon quadrangle1:62500
- 1910 USGS Macon quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Moberly quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Clarence quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Macon quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Clarence in 2002, burning about 1 acre 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 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 April 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Storms near this place
15 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clarence in 15 storm reports between 2001 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 lightning, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2001 | Lightning | Clarence | $50,000 | A lightning strike is believed to have been the cause of a fire that destroyed the building of an antique business in Clarence. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarence | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew a large tree branch onto a home causing minor roof and eave damage. |
| April 2024 | Hail | Clarence | - | Clarence Police Department reported dime to quarter sized hail falling. |
| October 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarence | - | Thunderstorm winds caused a 4 to 5 inch diameter tree to fall across Hwy Z. Steel truss metal and lumber was also reported across Hwy 151. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Clarence | - | A wide swath of large hail fell from Clarence northeastward through Bethel. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarence | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down several large trees around town. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarence | - | An intense bow echo moved through the Clarence area, blowing down numerous trees, tree limbs and power lines. Several three foot diameter trees were uprooted three miles south of Clarence. On the east side of town off of U.S. Highway 36, a feed mill sustained quite a bit of damage. One 500,000 bushel bin was nearly smashed to the ground and a second one sustained major roof damage. Two smaller bins were damaged as well. Just southwest of Clarence, a large machine shed was completely destroyed. Several 2x4s from the shed were thrown through the roof of a two story home nearby. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarence | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous trees and a power pole in Clarence. A transformer on the power pole started a small fire after it fell. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarence | - | Thunderstorm winds damaged the roof of a mobile home north of Clarence. The debris damage a pickup truck. A cattle barn was also destroyed. |
| May 2004 | Funnel Cloud | Clarence | - | Storm spotters reported a funnel cloud north of Clarence. |
| May 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Clarence | - | A small tornado continued from Macon County into west Shelby County just to the northwest of Clarence. The tornado crossed rural farmland to the northwest and north of Clarence. Damage was limited to some trees. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Clarence | - | no account filed |
| August 2010 | Hail | Clarence | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Clarence | - | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarence | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lentner | 6.1 miles | 9 | |
| Enterprise | 6.4 miles | 11 | |
| Hagers Grove | 6.4 miles | 8 | |
| Maud | 8.2 miles | 9 | |
| Kellerville | 8.6 miles | 8 | |
| Walkersville | 10.1 miles | 9 | |
| Kirby | 10.5 miles | 9 | |
| Lakeland | 10.6 miles | 10 |
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 Clarence | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q963670 | 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 715868. 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.







