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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.

Clarks within Merrick County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Clarks 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.

YearPeople Change
2010369
2020344-25 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

25 since 2003

Regional 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 burning8
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural2
Smoking2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
25 September 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
3 July 2007Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 June 2018Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
5 June 2018Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
5 June 2018Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 June 2020Debris and open burning4.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
28 June 2020Debris and open burning1.5 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
14 June 2012Natural4.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Merrick County

Storms near this place

33 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2011Thunderstorm WindClarks$1,000,000Wind 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 1999Tornado (F1)Clarks$200,000no account filed
May 2019FloodClarks$100,000Heavy 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 2011HailClarks$100,000Hail up to the size of ping pong balls fell for 10 minutes.
June 2005HailClarks$100,000Not only did large hail fall, but 60 mph winds were noted as well. Six inch diameter tree limbs were broken.
June 2011HailClarks$50,000Golf ball size hail was accompanied by wind gusts estimated at 50 MPH.
June 2002HailClarks$50,000no account filed
June 2002HailClarks$50,000no account filed
October 2000Tornado (F0)Clarks$30,000no account filed
July 2003HailClarks$25,000no account filed
May 2024Thunderstorm WindClarks-A wind gust of 67 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located four miles northeast of Clarks.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindClarks-A wind gust of 58 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located four miles northeast of Clarks.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindClarks-A wind gust of 65 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located four miles northeast of Clarks.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindClarks-Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH.
June 2022HailClarks-no account filed
June 2021HailClarks-no account filed
March 2019FloodClarks-no account filed
July 2016HailClarks-no account filed
July 2016HailClarks-no account filed
May 2015HailClarks-no account filed
February 2011FloodClarks-no account filed
March 2011FloodClarks-no account filed
June 2011HailClarks-no account filed
June 2010HailClarks-no account filed
July 2010HailClarks-no account filed
July 2008HailClarks-no account filed
May 2004HailClarks-no account filed
May 2003HailClarks-no account filed
May 2003HailClarks-no account filed
May 2001Funnel CloudClarks-no account filed
September 1995HailClarks-no account filed
June 1995Thunderstorm WindClarks-no account filed
July 1995HailClarks-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Merrick 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
Havens5.7 miles13
Heber10.3 miles14
Riverside Park11.0 miles14
Central City11.2 miles14
Silver Creek11.4 miles13
Hord13.1 miles14
Paddock15.1 miles14
Archer16.3 miles13

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 ClarksAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q967924The 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.