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Clark, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Prairie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65243. The Survey maps it on the Clark quadrangle. 254 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 860 feet above sea level.

Clark within Randolph County

Population over time

2 figures

Clark fell from 298 to 254 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
2010298
2020254-44 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Clark between 2001 and 2002, burning about 10 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 burning2

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
16 September 2001Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
23 February 2002Debris and open burning7.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Randolph 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 Clark: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown - LimestoneStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Randolph County

Storms near this place

10 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clark in 10 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
April 2010Thunderstorm WindClark$5,000Power poles were reported down, with winds estimated to 70 mph.
June 1995HailClark$4,000Severe thunderstorms produced golf ball-size hail in the Clark area.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindClark-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 70 mph.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindClark-A thunderstorm wind gust was measured at 70 mph.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindClark-A large tree was reported to be blocking Highway P. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph.
June 2005Flash FloodClark-Water and debris across Highway NN and Highway 63.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindClark-Power lines down by fallen tree.
March 2023HailClark-no account filed
May 2005HailClark-no account filed
June 2000HailClark-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Randolph 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
Ryder5.3 miles17
Renick5.7 miles17
Harkes8.7 miles17
Higbee9.2 miles15
Urbandale9.5 miles18
Moberly10.7 miles18
Kimberly13.0 miles18
Milton13.1 miles15

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 ClarkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q952524The 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 729293. 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.