BlockMonitor, Indiana
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Perry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47905. It stands on Middle Fork Wildcat Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lafayette East quadrangle. It stands 591 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Lafayette East quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1984 USGS Lafayette quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1998 USGS Lafayette East quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
8 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Monitor between 2002 and 2005, burning about 9 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 12 March 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 10 March 2004 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 29 February 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 16 December 2002 | Smoking | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 17 November 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 28 October 2004 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 15 October 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.5 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Monitor in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2017: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2008 | Flash Flood | Monitor | $5,000 | An observer reported flash flooding in Tippecanoe County. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monitor | $1,500 | Some tree damage due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts was noticed from Country Road 750 to 900 East between State Road 26 and Coutny Road 200 North. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monitor | $1,000 | A tree was downed blocking County Road 775 East, just south of State Route 26, due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| April 2013 | Hail | Monitor | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pettit | 2.5 miles | 9 | |
| Meadowbrook | 2.8 miles | 13 | |
| Heath | 3.1 miles | 9 | |
| Dayton | 3.2 miles | 9 | |
| Buck Creek | 4.7 miles | 13 | |
| Eastwitch | 5.0 miles | 13 | |
| Wyandot | 5.2 miles | 10 | |
| Delp | 5.6 miles | 13 |
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 Monitor | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6900461 | The 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 439326. 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.