Clinton, Nebraska
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in North Rushville precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 69343. The Survey maps it on the Clinton quadrangle. 38 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,743 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresClinton fell from 41 to 38 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 | 41 | |
| 2020 | 38 | -3 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1955 USGS Alliance quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Alliance quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Alliance quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Clinton quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Gordon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
15 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Clinton between 2007 and 2020, burning about 700 acres in total. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 60 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 23 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 35 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 21 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 103 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 6 August 2015 | Natural | 10 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 10 August 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 7 July 2020 | Natural | 65 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 18 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 75 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 11 July 2016 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
39 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clinton in 39 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 28 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2000 | Hail | Clinton | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Tornado (EF2) | Clinton | $25,000 | At 1903MDT the tornado touched down in an open field and moved south. It produced damage to three rows of tree wind breaks, destroyed 75 yards of fencing, and removed shingles from a double wide mobile home. Several tree trunks were snapped with the limb debris carried southeast. Law enforcement observed the tornado. The tornado was rated an EF-1 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale with a peak wind of 107 MPH. |
| July 2015 | Hail | Clinton | $20,000 | In addition to ping pong ball sized hail, numerous trees were blown over at this location. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Clinton | $10,000 | All windows were broken out on the north side of home. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clinton | $10,000 | Large tree limbs down at this location along with nickel sized hail. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clinton | $10,000 | Garage blown over |
| July 2023 | Hail | Clinton | - | Public reported quarter size hail on northwest side of Clinton. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Clinton | - | An off-duty NWS employee reported two inch size hail on northeast side of Clinton. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Clinton | - | A trained spotter reported tennis ball size hail near Clinton. |
| July 2022 | Flood | Clinton | - | Law enforcement reported flooding over Highway 20 near mile markers 95 and 96. Department of Transportation was in the process of barricading the highway. |
| July 2022 | Flash Flood | Clinton | - | One to two feet of water was reported on Highway 20 near Clinton. |
| July 2021 | Tornado (EFU) | Clinton | - | A brief landspout tornado developed about 3 miles northeast of Clinton in an open mixed grass prairie. No damage was observed or reported. |
| July 2019 | Hail | Clinton | - | A trained weather spotter reported up to quarter size hail. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clinton | - | Wind gust were estimated at 70 to 75 mph. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clinton | - | Estimated wind speeds of 60 mph, tree limbs up to 1 foot in diameter snapped off. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clinton | - | General public located 10 miles south southeast of Clinton reported thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph. |
| July 2015 | Hail | Clinton | - | In addition to quarter sized hail, thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated at 60 MPH. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Clinton | - | Three quarter inch hail piled up four inches deep. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Clinton | - | Public reported 1 inch hail with winds up to 40 mph. |
| July 2011 | Hail | Clinton | - | Most of the hail was a half an inch in diameter with the largest stones up to an inch in diameter. In addition to hail, an estimated 2 to 3 inches of rain fell during this period. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Clinton | - | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Hail | Clinton | - | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Hail | Clinton | - | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Hail | Clinton | - | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Hail | Clinton | - | no account filed |
| June 2018 | Hail | Clinton | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Clinton | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Clinton | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Clinton | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Clinton | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Clinton | - | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Hail | Clinton | - | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Hail | Clinton | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Clinton | - | no account filed |
| August 2014 | Hail | Clinton | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Heavy Rain | Clinton | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Clinton | - | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Hail | Clinton | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Funnel Cloud | Clinton | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rushville | 6.7 miles | 8 | |
| Gordon | 8.3 miles | 8 | |
| Albany (historical) | 14.1 miles | 8 | |
| Hay Springs | 18.8 miles | 8 | |
| Whiteclay | 19.6 miles | 8 | |
| Pine Ridge | 19.7 miles | 8 | |
| Grayson (historical) | 21.1 miles | 11 | |
| Peters (historical) | 23.2 miles | 8 |
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 Clinton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2741149 | 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 828215. 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.




