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Clark Mountain, from which the city takes its name, rises to a peak of about 1,440 feet some two miles northeast of Piedmont. It is often classed as a part of the St. Francois Mountain range.<ref>https://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=gnispq:3:0::NO::P3_FID:749370</ref> The city itself is laid out within a narrow valley along McKenzie Creek, a tributary of the Black River. It has a total area of 2.14 square miles, and an average elevation of 495 feet.<ref> https://web.archive.org/web/20110220065340/http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/files/Gaz_places_national.txt</ref>
Clark Mountain, from which the city takes its name, rises to a peak of about 1,440 feet some two miles northeast of Piedmont. It is often classed as a part of the St. Francois Mountain range.<ref>https://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=gnispq:3:0::NO::P3_FID:749370</ref> The city itself is laid out within a narrow valley along McKenzie Creek, a tributary of the Black River. It has a total area of 2.14 square miles, and an average elevation of 495 feet.<ref> https://web.archive.org/web/20110220065340/http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/files/Gaz_places_national.txt</ref>
==Demographics==
At the 2010 census, Piedmont had a total of 1,977 inhabitants, grouped into 823 households, with a population density of 923.8 people per square mile. This figure marked a slight decrease from the 2000 census, when Piedmont had a population of 1,992. 96.46% of the inhabitants were White, 0.51% were African-American, 0.25% were Native American, 0.96% were Asian, 0.76% were from some other race, and 1.06% were from two or more races. Hispanics of any race were 1.42% of the population.
The median age in Piedmont was 42.9 years, with 22.4% of inhabitants under the age of 18, 9.2% between 18 and 24 years old, 21.3% between 25 and 44, 25.9% between 45 and 64, and 21.1% 65 years old or older. The sex ratio was 46.1% male, 53.9% female.<ref>https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?src=CF</ref>
According to the 2017 American Community Survey, Piedmont had a median household income of $31,417, and a median family income of $36,106. The unemployment rate was 5.6%. The per capita income was $20,137. About 27.8% of the population lived below the poverty line, including 31.2% of people under the age of 18 and 21.4% of people 65 years old or older.<ref>https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?src=CF</ref>
==Education==
The city and most of western Wayne County are served by the Clearwater R-I School District, a PK-12 public institution based in the city with an enrollment of about 1,000 students. Its mascot is the Tigers, and the school colors are orange and black.<ref>https://www.greatschools.org/missouri/piedmont/clearwater-r_i-school-district/</ref>
There is also one private school, the Victory Baptist Academy, serving grades PK-12. In addition, the city is home to the Piedmont Public Library, the only such institution in the county.
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