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Clarkton, Missouri

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Freeborn Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63837. The Survey maps it on the Gideon quadrangle. 1,009 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 282 feet above sea level.

Clarkton within Dunklin County

On record in Clarkton

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

Clarkton fell from 1,288 to 1,009 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
20101,288
20201,009-279 (-22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

Storms near this place

23 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clarkton in 23 storm reports between 2002 and 2026: 12 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
March 2026Tornado (EF0)Clarkton$125,000A tornado touched down just east of Baird between County Roads 316 and 320 overturning multiple center pivots. The tornado continued into the town of Clarkton, causing roof damage to a state school, convenience store, and multiple homes along Page Street just south of W Highway 162. Additional damage was noted to an outbuilding south of E Highway 162, with debris spreading into a nearby field. The tornado lifted just before the town of Gideon.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindClarkton$30,000Straight line winds extensively damaged a roof of a school.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindClarkton$15,000Trees and powerlines down in Clarkton.
April 2006HailClarkton$10,000no account filed
April 2006HailClarkton$6,000no account filed
January 2005Thunderstorm WindClarkton$5,000A couple of trees were blown down.
September 2002Thunderstorm WindClarkton$5,000A few trees were blown down.
May 2006HailClarkton$5,000no account filed
April 2006HailClarkton$2,500no account filed
June 2003Flash FloodClarkton$1,000Several streets were flooded.
May 2002Flash FloodClarkton$1,000Some roads were flooded.
August 2003HailClarkton$110no account filed
April 2003HailClarkton$50no account filed
July 2022HailClarkton-Estimated 0.75 inch hail fell in Clarkton, Dunklin County.
June 2019Heavy RainClarkton-Estimates of 5 to 6 inches of rainfall near Clarkton.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindClarkton-Large tree uprooted.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindClarkton-Estimated wind gusts of 60 mph.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindClarkton-Straight line winds knocked down a few trees and powerlines in Clarkton.
July 2023HailClarkton-no account filed
May 2020HailClarkton-no account filed
April 2018HailClarkton-no account filed
March 2017HailClarkton-no account filed
July 2016HailClarkton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dunklin 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
Baird2.0 miles11
Wrightsville2.1 miles8
Page2.4 miles8
McGuire3.2 miles8
Gibson3.5 miles11
Marlow4.3 miles8
Providence4.5 miles9
Holcomb4.7 miles11

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 ClarktonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q963794The 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 731555. 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.

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.