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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.

Monon within White County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Monon 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,777
20201,919+142 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Monon QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in White County

Storms near this place

17 since 2003

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2004Flash FloodMonon$50,000Emergency 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 2015HailMonon-Nickel to quarter sized hail. A few slightly larger than quarter sized. Wind gusts estimated 40 to 50 mph.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindMonon-Several 1 to 2 foot diameter partially rotted trees down. Healthy branches up to 4 inches in diameter downed in the area.
June 2015Heavy RainMonon-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 2014Thunderstorm WindMonon-Emergency management officials reported several trees down in the area.
July 2012HailMonon-A trained spotter reported pea to nickel size hail.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindMonon-Local media reported a viewer measuring a 60 mph wind gust.
July 2005HailMonon-Another severe thunderstorm produced penny to quarter size hail along US-421 between Monon and Reynolds.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindMonon-Emergency management reported trees and power lines down with a few power poles down as well.
September 2004Flash FloodMonon-Monon Fire Dept reported flooding at the station and in downtown Monon.
September 2004Flash FloodMonon-Emergency management reported flash flooding in Monon with flooding at a trailer park and cars floating at a car dealership.
July 2003Flash FloodMonon-Emergency management reported the Little Monon Creek was 2 to 3 feet over its banks and stayed in flood through the evening.
July 2003Flash FloodMonon-Trained spotter reported numerous roads blocked by water over 1 foot deep around Monon.
October 2007HailMonon-no account filed
October 2007Thunderstorm WindMonon-no account filed
April 2006HailMonon-no account filed
April 2003HailMonon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in White 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
Lee5.1 miles9
Guernsey5.8 miles9
Buffalo7.2 miles9
Indiana Beach7.9 miles9
Sitka8.1 miles9
Reynolds8.2 miles9
Norway8.8 miles9
Seafield9.6 miles9

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 MononAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2539176The 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.