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Monson, California

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Dinuba census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93618. It stands on Sand Creek. The Survey maps it on the Monson quadrangle. 152 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 325 feet above sea level.

Monson within Tulare County

Then and now

1927 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 66 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Monson, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Monson, surveyed 1927

Population over time

2 figures

Monson fell from 188 to 152 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
2010188
2020152-36 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 19 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

311 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 311 fires within 5 miles of Monson between 1992 and 2020, burning about 835 acres in total. None started naturally. 130 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/incendiarism130
Missing data/not specified/undetermined76
Equipment and vehicle use55
Misuse of fire by a minor25
Debris and open burning15
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking4

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 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresTulare UnitSULTANA
9 September 2003Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTulare UnitMASSIE
9 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTulare UnitHUERTA
4 September 2000Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTulare UnitTULARE COUNTY # 74
4 September 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTulare UnitCUTLER
4 September 1993Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTulare UnitTULARE CO.#106
29 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTulare UnitDAWSON
29 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTulare UnitTULARE COUNTY # 83

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tulare County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Monson: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Tulare County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Monson in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
January 2008Thunderstorm WindMonson$15,000Off-duty NWS employee reported trees downed in the town of Orosi, just north of Visalia and south of Orange Cove.
December 2024FloodMonson-California Highway Patrol reported large branches covering the roadway at the intersection of Rd. 108 and Ave. 384.

Every storm recorded in Tulare 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
Smyrna (historical)2.3 miles22
Calgro2.7 miles19
Cutler3.4 miles22
Sultana3.7 miles22
Yettem4.1 miles19
Wyeth4.1 miles22
Tokay4.3 miles22
Dinuba4.4 miles23

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 MonsonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6022120The 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 1661051. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.