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Monona, Iowa

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Monona Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52159. The Survey maps it on the Monona quadrangle. 1,471 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,214 feet above sea level.

Monona within Clayton County

Population over time

2 figures

Monona fell from 1,549 to 1,471 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
20101,549
20201,471-78 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Monona between 2014 and 2018, burning about 21 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 April 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 April 2014Debris and open burning20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 March 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clayton County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Monona: 3 producers, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Doerring QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gisleson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mohs QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Spook CaveStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Zurcher QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clayton County

Storms near this place

33 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Monona in 33 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 17 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 3 funnel cloud, 3 heavy rain. 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 2026HailMonona$225,000The public reported tennis ball sized hail near Monona.
July 2022Flash FloodMonona$50,000Runoff from heavy rains caused some flash flooding to occur across northeast Clayton County. Flood waters from Bloody Run Creek took out a bridge in the Bloody Run County Park west of Marquette.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindMonona$35,000no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindMonona$15,000no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindMonona$12,000no account filed
July 2017Thunderstorm WindMonona$10,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down just east of Monona. The strong winds also impacted some corn fields.
September 2016Flash FloodMonona$10,000Sections of County Highway B45 were washed out near Monona. Sandbagging occurred in Farmersburg to protect the community from flood waters on Howard Creek.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindMonona$5,000Shingles were blown off a house in Monona.
May 2000HailMonona$5,000no account filed
September 2007Thunderstorm WindMonona$4,000Large trees and power lines were knocked down and power outages were reported near Monona.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindMonona$3,000Power lines were blown down in Monona.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindMonona$3,000Power lines were blown down and trees damaged in Monona.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindMonona$3,000According to the Monona Outlook, damaging winds from thunderstorms knocked down trees and power lines in the town of Monona.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindMonona$2,000Trees were blown down in Monona.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindMonona$1,500no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindMonona$1,500no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindMonona$1,500no account filed
May 2007Thunderstorm WindMonona$1,000Power lines and a few large trees were blown down.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindMonona-The public measured a wind gust of 66 mph in Monona.
March 2020HailMonona-Quarter sized hail was reported in Monona.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindMonona-An estimated 65 mph wind gust occurred in Monona.
May 2017HailMonona-Half dollar sized hail fell in Monona.
August 2017Funnel CloudMonona-A funnel cloud was filmed briefly near Monona, IA as non-severe thunderstorms moved along Highway 18 towards Wisconsin.
July 2016Heavy RainMonona-The COOP observer in Monona measured 4.87 inches of rain.
December 2015Heavy RainMonona-A total of 3.84 inches of rain fell. Other totals in the county included 3.03 at Elkader 6SSW and 2.80 inches near Strawberry Point.
July 2012Heavy RainMonona-In a half hour, 1.75 inches of rain fell in Monona.
July 2010FloodMonona-Officers reported street flooding in the town of Monona.
March 2020HailMonona-no account filed
May 2008HailMonona-no account filed
May 2000HailMonona-no account filed
May 2000Funnel CloudMonona-no account filed
May 2000Funnel CloudMonona-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindMonona-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clayton 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
Valdora (historical)3.0 miles13
Luana3.5 miles13
Watson3.5 miles13
Beulah4.6 miles13
Froelich4.7 miles13
Hardin5.4 miles13
Giard6.2 miles13
Farmersburg6.3 miles12

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 MononaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1926368The 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 459174. 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.