Monmouth, Kansas
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Sheridan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66753. It stands on Wolf Creek. The Survey maps it on the West Mineral quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 20 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.
- 1886 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1943 USGS Cherokee quadrangle1:62500
- 1945 USGS Cherokee quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1947 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS West Mineral quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
14 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Monmouth between 2015 and 2020, burning about 104 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 13 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1800029 |
| 24 June 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Crawford County | 62427 |
| 24 June 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 17 |
| 31 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 11 |
| 3 March 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1800014 |
| 17 March 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 016-062 |
| 15 March 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 016-060 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Monmouth in 7 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 3 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monmouth | $60,000 | Damage was reported to a parsonage house and church at 896 south 80th street, other roofs with shingles torn off and wires and power poles down with a transformer knocked over. |
| October 2009 | Flash Flood | Monmouth | $5,000 | Heavy rainfall caused water to flow over 40th Street making it impassable. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monmouth | - | An off duty firefighter measured 60 mph wind gusts. |
| November 2015 | Hail | Monmouth | - | Dime to nickel sized hail was reported. |
| September 2008 | Flash Flood | Monmouth | - | Rainfall amounts ranged from five to six inches over Crawford County. Widepsread flooding of small streams and creeks occurred. Cow Creek and Lightning Creek appeared to have been impacted the most. Several county roads in between Highway 126 and Highway 400 were flooded. Also, several roads east of Pittsburg near Cow Creek were flooded and impassable to motorists. |
| May 2013 | Hail | Monmouth | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Monmouth | - | 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 Monmouth | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q17108364 | 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 469622. 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.











