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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.

Monmouth within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 20 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.

Fires near this place

14 since 2015

Regional 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
22 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
13 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1800029
24 June 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCrawford County62427
24 June 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service17
31 March 2018Debris and open burning3.0 acresKansas Forest Service11
3 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKansas Forest Service1800014
17 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service016-062
15 March 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service016-060

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

7 since 2008

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2019Thunderstorm WindMonmouth$60,000Damage 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 2009Flash FloodMonmouth$5,000Heavy rainfall caused water to flow over 40th Street making it impassable.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindMonmouth-An off duty firefighter measured 60 mph wind gusts.
November 2015HailMonmouth-Dime to nickel sized hail was reported.
September 2008Flash FloodMonmouth-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 2013HailMonmouth-no account filed
June 2011HailMonmouth-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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
McCune4.3 miles18
Filler6.1 miles21
Cherokee6.9 miles20
Beulah7.8 miles21
Fleming8.2 miles20
Klondike9.4 miles20
Chicopee10.4 miles24
Greenbush10.8 miles22

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 MonmouthAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17108364The 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.