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Monroe City, Indiana

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Harrison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47557. The Survey maps it on the Monroe City quadrangle. 502 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 522 feet above sea level.

Monroe City within Knox County

Population over time

2 figures

Monroe City fell from 545 to 502 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
2010545
2020502-43 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Storms near this place

28 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Monroe City in 28 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 15 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 4 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 2002Tornado (F2)Monroe City2 hurt, $1,000,000no account filed
April 2025Flash FloodMonroe City$50,000Law enforcement unit reports water over Old Bruceville Rd near Church Rd. Total rainfall was between 2.25 and 2.75 inches.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindMonroe City$25,000Multiple reports of trees and powerlines downed by thunderstorm wind gusts across the southern portions of the county.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindMonroe City$10,000Power outages caused by thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindMonroe City$10,000A home was damaged in the vicinity of Monroe City by straight-line winds.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindMonroe City$5,000Several trees were uprooted in town due to strong thunderstorm wind gusts and a saturated ground.
June 2007FloodMonroe City$5,000The Monroe City fire department estimated water as deep as two feet on numerous roadways across the city.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindMonroe City$4,000Trees limbs fell on a vehicle and a fence due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindMonroe City$3,000Decaying thunderstorm's winds downed large, healthy trees onto Grant Street in Monroe City.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindMonroe City$3,000A tree was reported down on a house near Blue Jeans Community Center. No information on damage was given.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindMonroe City$2,000Tree of unknown size downed by thunderstorm wind gusts.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindMonroe City$2,000A tree was downed, along with power lines, near the intersection of 8th and Johnson Streets due to damaging thundersorm wind gusts.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindMonroe City$1,000Trees downed.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindMonroe City$1,000no account filed
June 2013Thunderstorm WindMonroe City$500Tree limbs were downed along State Route 61 due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindMonroe City$500Tree limbs were reported down, along with 45 to 50 mph thunderstorm wind gusts.
May 2010Flash FloodMonroe City$500Heavy rain caused flash flooding on State Road 61, south of Monroe City.
July 2012HailMonroe City-Dime to nickel sized hail observed in this location.
May 2006Flash FloodMonroe City-Water was over Highway 61 in Monroe City. No property damage was reported.
July 2015HailMonroe City-no account filed
May 2012HailMonroe City-no account filed
May 2012HailMonroe City-no account filed
July 2012HailMonroe City-no account filed
November 2005HailMonroe City-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindMonroe City-no account filed
April 2002Flash FloodMonroe City-no account filed
March 1997Thunderstorm WindMonroe City-no account filed
May 1996HailMonroe City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Knox 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
Five Points0.5 miles13
Wheatland4.1 miles14
Verne4.2 miles18
Willis4.3 miles13
Pond Creek Mills4.4 miles13
Ridgleville5.1 miles14
Fritchton5.8 miles18
Iona7.7 miles14

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 Q2208850The 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 439342. 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.

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.