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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.

Monette within Craighead County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Monette 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,501
20201,506+5 (+0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 printed sheets

Matched 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.

Fires near this place

3 since 1999

Regional 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/incendiarism3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
1 October 1999Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
1 October 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 January 2014Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresOzark-St. Francis National ForestsBEAR PEN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Craighead County

Storms near this place

22 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2011Tornado (EF0)Monette$30,000A 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 2008Thunderstorm WindMonette$18,000Straight 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 2017Thunderstorm WindMonette$15,000A tin roof was blown off a vacant building. A home lost shingles.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindMonette$15,000Some shingles were blown off a few homes. Several trees and power lines were knocked down.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindMonette$10,000Several power lines and large trees were blown down.
November 1995Thunderstorm WindMonette$10,000A storage building was blown down.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindMonette$5,000Power pole and power lines down.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindMonette$5,000Straight line winds knocked a tree onto a house in Monette.
April 2004Thunderstorm WindMonette$5,000Several power lines were blown down.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindMonette$5,000Some power lines were blown down.
April 2007HailMonette$1,000no account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindMonette$500Thunderstorm winds downed some tree limbs.
May 1999HailMonette$100no account filed
February 2005HailMonette$60no account filed
August 2003HailMonette$10no account filed
April 2022HailMonette-Dime to quarter-sized hail fell in Monette.
May 2018Tornado (EF0)Monette-Storm spotters reported a weak tornado in a field south of Monette. No damage was reported.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindMonette-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 1994HailMonette-Thunderstorm winds downed some tree limbs.
May 2021HailMonette-no account filed
March 2020HailMonette-no account filed
March 2017HailMonette-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Craighead County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Macey2.7 miles10
Delfore3.3 miles10
Upper Poplar Ridge3.4 miles10
Black Oak3.8 miles10
Cottonwood Corner4.6 miles10
Childress4.9 miles10
Poplar Ridge5.3 miles10
Cane Island (historical)5.4 miles10

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 MonetteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79286The 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.