Clarks, Nebraska
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Clarksville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68628. The Survey maps it on the Clarks quadrangle. 344 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,621 feet above sea level.
On record in Clarks
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
- Clarksville Township Carnegie Librarylisted 2021
Population over time
2 figuresClarks fell from 369 to 344 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 | 369 | |
| 2020 | 344 | -25 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1896 USGS Stromsburg quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Clarks quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS David City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
25 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Clarks between 2003 and 2020, burning about 83 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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 burning | 8 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 3 July 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 6 June 2018 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 5 June 2018 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 5 June 2018 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 4 June 2020 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 28 June 2020 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 14 June 2012 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
33 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clarks in 33 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 20 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 flood, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarks | $1,000,000 | Wind gusts were estimated to be as high as 80 MPH. Along this path, an old grain elevator was destroyed, large trees branches were blown down, irrigation pivots were overturned, and a couple of power poles were broken. |
| April 1999 | Tornado (F1) | Clarks | $200,000 | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Flood | Clarks | $100,000 | Heavy rainfall resulted in widespread flooding of area creeks across Merrick County, including the Prairie and Silver Creeks. Numerous rural roads and bridges were under water. Due to the flooding of the Silver Creek, there were voluntary home evacuations on the west-southwest side of the town of Silver Creek. Prairie Creek crested at 9.52 feet in the mid-morning hours of May 29th, and that was the 4th highest crest on record. Silver Creek crested at 9.65 feet the morning of May 29th, and that was a new record crest. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Clarks | $100,000 | Hail up to the size of ping pong balls fell for 10 minutes. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Clarks | $100,000 | Not only did large hail fall, but 60 mph winds were noted as well. Six inch diameter tree limbs were broken. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Clarks | $50,000 | Golf ball size hail was accompanied by wind gusts estimated at 50 MPH. |
| June 2002 | Hail | Clarks | $50,000 | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Clarks | $50,000 | no account filed |
| October 2000 | Tornado (F0) | Clarks | $30,000 | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Clarks | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarks | - | A wind gust of 67 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located four miles northeast of Clarks. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarks | - | A wind gust of 58 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located four miles northeast of Clarks. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarks | - | A wind gust of 65 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located four miles northeast of Clarks. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarks | - | Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Clarks | - | no account filed |
| June 2021 | Hail | Clarks | - | no account filed |
| March 2019 | Flood | Clarks | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Clarks | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Clarks | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Clarks | - | no account filed |
| February 2011 | Flood | Clarks | - | no account filed |
| March 2011 | Flood | Clarks | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Clarks | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Clarks | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Clarks | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Clarks | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Clarks | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Clarks | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Clarks | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Funnel Cloud | Clarks | - | no account filed |
| September 1995 | Hail | Clarks | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarks | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Hail | Clarks | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Havens | 5.7 miles | 13 | |
| Heber | 10.3 miles | 14 | |
| Riverside Park | 11.0 miles | 14 | |
| Central City | 11.2 miles | 14 | |
| Silver Creek | 11.4 miles | 13 | |
| Hord | 13.1 miles | 14 | |
| Paddock | 15.1 miles | 14 | |
| Archer | 16.3 miles | 13 |
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 Clarks | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q967924 | 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 828159. 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.





