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Monmouth, California

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Selma census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93725. The Survey maps it on the Conejo quadrangle. 120 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 276 feet above sea level.

Monmouth within Fresno County

Then and now

1924 to 1982

The same ground, surveyed 58 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Monmouth, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet of Monmouth, surveyed 1924

Population over time

2 figures

Monmouth fell from 152 to 120 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
2010152
2020120-32 (-21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 20 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

329 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 329 fires within 5 miles of Monmouth between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,561 acres in total. None started naturally. 27 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined156
Debris and open burning85
Equipment and vehicle use42
Arson/incendiarism27
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
9 September 2016Smoking1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protection41
9 September 1998Arson/incendiarism40 acresFresno-Kings Unit8FKU038635
9 September 1994Debris and open burning10 acresFresno-Kings UnitFKU-9402
8 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.5 acresFresno-Kings UnitS ELM AVE CARUTHERS
7 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitPEACH
7 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitFKU-10981
4 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionPEACH
30 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFresno-Kings UnitCHESTNUT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fresno County

Storms near this place

5 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Monmouth in 5 storm reports in 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood. 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
March 2023Thunderstorm WindMonmouth$6,000California Highway Patrol reported a downed tree which damaged a car on E. Nebraska Ave at S. Clovis Ave.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindMonmouth$3,000California Highway Patrol reported a downed tree and power lines which caught fire at S. Clovis Ave. north of E. Floral Ave.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindMonmouth$1,000California Highway Patrol reported a downed tree on E. Nebraska Ave at S. Chestnut Ave.
January 2023FloodMonmouth-Public report of the westbound lanes of E. Nebraska Ave were flooded at the S. Minnewawa Ave. exchange.
February 2023FloodMonmouth-California Highway Patrol reported large amounts of water on E. Nebraska Ave. between Peach Ave. and Clovis Ave.

Every storm recorded in Fresno 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
Bowles2.7 miles20
Elm View3.0 miles20
Conejo3.5 miles20
Oleander4.8 miles21
Caruthers5.2 miles20
Wildflower5.2 miles20
Fowler5.5 miles20
Easton6.4 miles21

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 MonmouthAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q541233The 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 1656172. 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.