Monette, Arkansas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Buffalo Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72447. The Survey maps it on the Leachville quadrangle. 1,506 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 236 feet above sea level.
On record in Monette
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 2 records
First National Bank Buildinglisted 2008
Monette Water Towerlisted 2008
Population over time
2 figuresMonette grew from 1,501 to 1,506 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,501 | |
| 2020 | 1,506 | +5 (+0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1941 USGS Leachville quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Leachville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Memphis quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Leachville quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Jonesboro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Monette between 1999 and 2014, burning about 15 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 October 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 6.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 1 October 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 January 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | 6.0 acres | Ozark-St. Francis National Forests | BEAR PEN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
22 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Monette in 22 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 11 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 2 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2011 | Tornado (EF0) | Monette | $30,000 | A weak tornado briefly touched down along County Road 513, northeast of Black Oak. The tornado moved northeast crossing Highway 18. The tornado lifted southwest of Monette along County Road 506. A pivot irrigation system was flipped over. Two telephone poles were knocked down. A few tree limbs were broken. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monette | $18,000 | Straight line winds blew seven power lines down blocking Highway 18 just east of Monette. A storage building was also blown down. Two mobile homes were damaged as well. |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monette | $15,000 | A tin roof was blown off a vacant building. A home lost shingles. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monette | $15,000 | Some shingles were blown off a few homes. Several trees and power lines were knocked down. |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monette | $10,000 | Several power lines and large trees were blown down. |
| November 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monette | $10,000 | A storage building was blown down. |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monette | $5,000 | Power pole and power lines down. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monette | $5,000 | Straight line winds knocked a tree onto a house in Monette. |
| April 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monette | $5,000 | Several power lines were blown down. |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monette | $5,000 | Some power lines were blown down. |
| April 2007 | Hail | Monette | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monette | $500 | Thunderstorm winds downed some tree limbs. |
| May 1999 | Hail | Monette | $100 | no account filed |
| February 2005 | Hail | Monette | $60 | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Monette | $10 | no account filed |
| April 2022 | Hail | Monette | - | Dime to quarter-sized hail fell in Monette. |
| May 2018 | Tornado (EF0) | Monette | - | Storm spotters reported a weak tornado in a field south of Monette. No damage was reported. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monette | - | Straight line winds knocked down trees all across Craighead County. In addition, signs were blown off of buildings in Monette. Power poles and power lines were knocked down along Highway 226 near Valley View as well. |
| June 1994 | Hail | Monette | - | Thunderstorm winds downed some tree limbs. |
| May 2021 | Hail | Monette | - | no account filed |
| March 2020 | Hail | Monette | - | no account filed |
| March 2017 | Hail | Monette | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Macey | 2.7 miles | 10 | |
| Delfore | 3.3 miles | 10 | |
| Upper Poplar Ridge | 3.4 miles | 10 | |
| Black Oak | 3.8 miles | 10 | |
| Cottonwood Corner | 4.6 miles | 10 | |
| Childress | 4.9 miles | 10 | |
| Poplar Ridge | 5.3 miles | 10 | |
| Cane Island (historical) | 5.4 miles | 10 |
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 Monette | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q79286 | The 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 77680. 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.





