Clearwater, Minnesota

Clearwater population, 2020 to 2024

Clearwater added 291 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +15.1%. In the latest year it moved by +114.

Clearwater covers 1.79 square miles of land and 0.14 of water, for 1,241 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Clearwater is less dense than the typical town.

The 2 counties Clearwater spans

Clearwater crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 2,221 residents as follows; Wright County holds 99.8% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Clearwater

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Clearwater by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 55320. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Clearwater is

The Census internal point of Clearwater is at 45.409900, -94.044600. Saint Paul, the capital, is 55.6 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is St. Augusta, MN (3,767 people), 7.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Minneapolis, MN, 48.8 miles away.

Daylight in Clearwater

At 45.41° N, Clearwater gets about 15 h 40 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 43 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 58 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Clearwater

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is St. Augusta, 7.8 miles away, with 3,767 people.