Clearmont, Missouri
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Atchison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64431. The Survey maps it on the Clearmont quadrangle. 158 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 971 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresClearmont fell from 170 to 158 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 | 170 | |
| 2020 | 158 | -12 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 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.
- 1940 USGS Coin quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Coin quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Clearmont quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Nebraska City quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
2,107 words on this townshipPast and Present of Nodaway County, Missouri, published 1910 names this settlement in its chapter on Atchison Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
The first man to become a permanent settler within Atchison township, as now described, was Ephriam W. Johnson, who came from Lawrence county, Indiana, arriving November 6, 1841, at a point three miles north of where he finally permanently settled, about eight miles north of Clearmont. on section 35 township 66, range 36. That was before the land survey had been made as to sections, and he, like all early pioneers, took a claim. At that date this territory was annexed to Andrew county, which extended north into what is now Page county, Iowa, to a point about two miles south of Clarinda. After a great dispute, the calling out of militia on the part of both states, and finally getting a court decision, in 1849 the present state line was fixed.
Passage source: Past and Present of Nodaway County, Missouri, published 1910.
In 1845 canie John H. Warrens, from Johnson county, Missouri. He was the first justice of peace ever commissioned in Nodaway county. He was well-fitted for frontier life. Later he removed to Gage county, Nebraska. West Farrens took a claim about the same time, six miles northeast of old Clearmont, as did Harvey Dillon, who died in 1850. In 1844 came William Houston from Indiana; he settled eight miles northeast of Clearmont.
Passage source: Past and Present of Nodaway County, Missouri, published 1910.
The only town within the borders of Atchison township is Clearmont, five miles to the northeast of Burlington Junction, on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad. At one time the Wabash route had a branch to Clarinda from Clearmont, but about 1889 it was sold to the Burlington system, and its track in Page county was torn up from Clarinda to Brady ville, Iowa.
Passage source: Past and Present of Nodaway County, Missouri, published 1910.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Atchison Township - it names this place 6 more 6 times.
Fires near this place
3 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Clearmont between 2018 and 2020, burning about 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 190113-07499-03032020-1330 |
| 14 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 176045-07499-03142018-1912 |
| 17 February 2020 | Debris and open burning | 2.4 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 190112-07499-02172020-1420 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Clearmont: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.
Storms near this place
18 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clearmont in 18 storm reports between 1993 and 2021: 9 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 flash flood, 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 2008 | Flood | Clearmont | $250,000 | Many roads adjacent to the Nodaway River were flooded from the Iowa border, to south of Skidmore. Several roads were washed out and two bridges were heavily damaged. |
| May 1993 | Tornado (F0) | Clearmont | $50,000 | Several farm silos were damaged when a small tornado touched down briefly. Reported by the county sheriff and county officials from Taylor County, Iowa. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clearmont | $2,000 | Multiple powerlines were reported down. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clearmont | $1,000 | Trees and power lines were reported down. |
| September 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clearmont | $500 | Tree limbs were reported down on powerlines. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clearmont | - | A few windows were blown out of the home at this location. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clearmont | - | A storm chaser reported 60 mph wind. |
| March 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clearmont | - | Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clearmont | - | Numerous trees were reported down. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 70 mph. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clearmont | - | Wind gusts were estimated up to 64 mph. |
| May 2004 | Flash Flood | Clearmont | - | Heavy rains caused water over several roads. |
| July 2015 | Hail | Clearmont | - | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Hail | Clearmont | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Clearmont | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clearmont | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Clearmont | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Clearmont | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Flash Flood | Clearmont | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Possum Walk | 3.0 miles | 14 | |
| Elmo | 4.5 miles | 12 | |
| Dawsonville | 4.7 miles | 14 | |
| Burlington Junction | 4.8 miles | 14 | |
| Roseberry | 5.0 miles | 14 | |
| Wilcox | 8.4 miles | 11 | |
| Quitman | 9.7 miles | 14 | |
| Pickering | 10.9 miles | 11 |
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 Clearmont | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q967609 | 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 715959. 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.







