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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.

Clinton within Sheridan County

Population over time

2 figures

Clinton 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.

YearPeople Change
201041
202038-3 (-7%)

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.

Fires near this place

15 since 2007

Regional 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 use6
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
23 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use60 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
23 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use35 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use103 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 August 2015Natural10 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
10 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 July 2020Natural65 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
18 July 2017Equipment and vehicle use75 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
11 July 2016Debris and open burning25 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sheridan County

Storms near this place

39 since 2000

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2000HailClinton$50,000no account filed
July 2016Tornado (EF2)Clinton$25,000At 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 2015HailClinton$20,000In addition to ping pong ball sized hail, numerous trees were blown over at this location.
June 2015HailClinton$10,000All windows were broken out on the north side of home.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindClinton$10,000Large tree limbs down at this location along with nickel sized hail.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindClinton$10,000Garage blown over
July 2023HailClinton-Public reported quarter size hail on northwest side of Clinton.
July 2023HailClinton-An off-duty NWS employee reported two inch size hail on northeast side of Clinton.
July 2023HailClinton-A trained spotter reported tennis ball size hail near Clinton.
July 2022FloodClinton-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 2022Flash FloodClinton-One to two feet of water was reported on Highway 20 near Clinton.
July 2021Tornado (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 2019HailClinton-A trained weather spotter reported up to quarter size hail.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindClinton-Wind gust were estimated at 70 to 75 mph.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindClinton-Estimated wind speeds of 60 mph, tree limbs up to 1 foot in diameter snapped off.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindClinton-General public located 10 miles south southeast of Clinton reported thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph.
July 2015HailClinton-In addition to quarter sized hail, thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated at 60 MPH.
May 2013HailClinton-Three quarter inch hail piled up four inches deep.
June 2011HailClinton-Public reported 1 inch hail with winds up to 40 mph.
July 2011HailClinton-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 2022HailClinton-no account filed
August 2021HailClinton-no account filed
July 2018HailClinton-no account filed
July 2018HailClinton-no account filed
July 2018HailClinton-no account filed
June 2018HailClinton-no account filed
June 2015HailClinton-no account filed
June 2015HailClinton-no account filed
June 2015HailClinton-no account filed
June 2015HailClinton-no account filed
July 2015HailClinton-no account filed
July 2015HailClinton-no account filed
July 2014HailClinton-no account filed
June 2014HailClinton-no account filed
August 2014HailClinton-no account filed
May 2013Heavy RainClinton-no account filed
July 2011HailClinton-no account filed
June 2010HailClinton-no account filed
July 2010Funnel CloudClinton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sheridan 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
Rushville6.7 miles8
Gordon8.3 miles8
Albany (historical)14.1 miles8
Hay Springs18.8 miles8
Whiteclay19.6 miles8
Pine Ridge19.7 miles8
Grayson (historical)21.1 miles11
Peters (historical)23.2 miles8

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 ClintonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2741149The 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.