Clarks, NE

Clarks is a village in Merrick County, Nebraska, United States. The 2020 census counted 344 residents. Clarks is part of the Grand Island, Nebraska Micropolitan Statistical Area. Clarks is named for Silas Henry H. Clarks Public School was a K-12 school until it consolidated with the Polk, Hordville, and Marquette school systems in 2000. Clarks's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Nebraska setting. The local scoop is how Clarks's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. Clarks is in northeastern Merrick County, mostly on the northwest side of U.S. Route 30, which leads southwest 11 miles to Central City, the county seat, and northeast the same distance to Silver Creek. The Platte River flows by less than 2 miles southeast of the village. Clarks includes the Platte River.