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Monroe City, Illinois

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Precinct 15. It lies in ZIP code area 62298. It lies in Monroe City Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Valmeyer quadrangle.

Monroe City within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 26 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

44 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Monroe City between 2008 and 2020, burning about 234 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Debris and open burning15
Equipment and vehicle use6
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
7 August 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources62220
8 July 2008Equipment and vehicle use10 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesUNION PACIFIC
16 July 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreIllinois Division of Forestry Resources20-000022
1 July 2008Equipment and vehicle use25 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesBAUM
8 June 2012Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesUP
6 June 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesVAL 1
11 June 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesKOCH
6 May 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresIllinois Division of Forestry Resources15-0004

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Monroe City: 2 past producers, 1 plant. 1 still produces. 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
Columbia Quarry No. 3Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Columbia Quarry No. 5Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Valmeyer No 3 Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Monroe City in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 hail. 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
May 2008HailMonroe City-Amateur radio spotters reported one inch hail at Bluff Road and Route KK.

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Woodville (historical)0.3 miles26
Madonnaville1.2 miles19
Maeystown2.8 miles18
Chalfin Bridge3.0 miles19
Valmeyer3.5 miles26
Foster Pond (historical)4.4 miles19
Wartburg4.4 miles19
Harrisonville4.7 miles26

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 Monroe CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6902134The 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 413729. 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.