CLOQUET, a city of Carlton county, Minnesota, U.S.A., on the St. Louis river, 21m. W. by S. of Duluth. It is served by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific, Duluth and North eastern, Great Northern and Northern Pacific railways. The popu lation was 5,127 in 192o; in 193o, 6.782 by the Federal census. The river supplies waterpower, and the city has large lumber mills, a pulp and paper-mill and factories making insulating mate rials, boxes, clothes-pins, toothpicks, broom-handles and other articles of wood. A forest experiment station of the University of Minnesota is located here. The first mill was built in 1878, and the village was named from the French word claquet, represent ing the sound made by the mill. It was chartered as a city in 1903.