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Monticello, Kansas

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Shawnee City. It lies in ZIP code area 66227. The Survey maps it on the Olathe quadrangle.

Monticello within Johnson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 26 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

138 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Monticello between 2004 and 2020, burning about 146 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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/undetermined81
Debris and open burning24
Arson/incendiarism10
Equipment and vehicle use9
Smoking7
Fireworks3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
28 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2710174
23 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreJohnson County2660176
20 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2630164
20 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service2630093
4 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Servicenot named
18 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreJohnson County2300169
14 August 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service2260089
13 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service2250036

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Monticello: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Bonner Springs Cement PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bonner Springs-Plant #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Builders #2 Dredge & PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Muncie Plant #6Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this place

8 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Monticello in 8 storm reports between 2017 and 2023: 5 hail, 3 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
July 2023Thunderstorm WindMonticello-Peak wind gust of 89 mph was recorded on a personal weather station just west of the intersection of Highway 7 and 83rd Street.
September 2023HailMonticello-Golf ball sized hail was reported near 83rd and Mize Road in far western Lenexa.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindMonticello-A 50 foot tall, 4 foot diameter tree was knocked over.
May 2017HailMonticello-This report at 75th and Mize came from social media photo.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindMonticello-A trained spotter reported a 59 mph wind gust near Bonner Springs.
September 2021HailMonticello-no account filed
April 2018HailMonticello-no account filed
May 2017HailMonticello-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Johnson 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
Zarah1.2 miles38
Frisbie2.5 miles36
Craig2.7 miles26
Holliday3.3 miles38
Wilder3.3 miles38
Chouteau3.4 miles38
Lake Quivira4.6 miles38
Cedar5.0 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 479186. 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.

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.