Monon, Indiana
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Monon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47959. The Survey maps it on the Monon quadrangle. 1,919 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 682 feet above sea level.
On record in Monon
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Monon Commercial Historic Districtlisted 2000
Population over time
2 figuresMonon grew from 1,777 to 1,919 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,777 | |
| 2020 | 1,919 | +142 (+8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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
- 1962 USGS Monon quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Logansport quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Monon: 1 producer. All of them 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monon Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
17 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Monon in 17 storm reports between 2003 and 2015: 6 hail, 5 flash flood, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2004 | Flash Flood | Monon | $50,000 | Emergency management reported flooding in downtown Monon with flash flooding reported. A car dealership and a trailer park had flood damage...with flooding at the Monon Fire Dept. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Monon | - | Nickel to quarter sized hail. A few slightly larger than quarter sized. Wind gusts estimated 40 to 50 mph. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monon | - | Several 1 to 2 foot diameter partially rotted trees down. Healthy branches up to 4 inches in diameter downed in the area. |
| June 2015 | Heavy Rain | Monon | - | Extremely heavy rain within the storm caused water to rise to the curb or above in many streets in Monon. Travel became restricted or slowed on most roads through town. |
| September 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monon | - | Emergency management officials reported several trees down in the area. |
| July 2012 | Hail | Monon | - | A trained spotter reported pea to nickel size hail. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monon | - | Local media reported a viewer measuring a 60 mph wind gust. |
| July 2005 | Hail | Monon | - | Another severe thunderstorm produced penny to quarter size hail along US-421 between Monon and Reynolds. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monon | - | Emergency management reported trees and power lines down with a few power poles down as well. |
| September 2004 | Flash Flood | Monon | - | Monon Fire Dept reported flooding at the station and in downtown Monon. |
| September 2004 | Flash Flood | Monon | - | Emergency management reported flash flooding in Monon with flooding at a trailer park and cars floating at a car dealership. |
| July 2003 | Flash Flood | Monon | - | Emergency management reported the Little Monon Creek was 2 to 3 feet over its banks and stayed in flood through the evening. |
| July 2003 | Flash Flood | Monon | - | Trained spotter reported numerous roads blocked by water over 1 foot deep around Monon. |
| October 2007 | Hail | Monon | - | no account filed |
| October 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monon | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Monon | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Monon | - | 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.
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 Monon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2539176 | 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 439333. 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.
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.




