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Monica, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the St. Helens census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41311. It stands on Little Bear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tallega quadrangle. It stands 715 feet above sea level.

Monica within Lee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

206 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 206 fires within 5 miles of Monica between 1995 and 2020, burning about 6,928 acres in total. None started naturally. 47 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
Debris and open burning91
Arson/incendiarism47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined42
Recreation and ceremony20
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking2
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
30 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2019Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBRUSH CREEK ROAD
13 September 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 September 1998Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 August 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryGRAY HAWK
7 July 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHIGHWAY 708
27 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee County

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 Monica: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Mud Tunnel ShaleClayProspect

Every working recorded in Lee County

Storms near this place

5 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Monica in 5 storm reports between 2007 and 2014: 5 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
May 2008Thunderstorm WindMonica$8,000Numerous tree branches between 2 and 5 inches in diameter were blown down on Highway 52. A couple of trees were also split down the middle and had to be removed from the roadway.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindMonica$2,000Large limbs down along Highway 52.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindMonica$1,000A tree was blown down and across a road in Monica.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindMonica-A tree was blown down and across Blankey Branch Road.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindMonica-Trees were blown down on Hwy 52.

Every storm recorded in Lee 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
Primrose1.3 miles12
Canyon Falls1.4 miles12
Tallega1.8 miles12
Airedale2.4 miles13
Saint Helens2.4 miles13
Vada2.7 miles12
Athol3.0 miles12
Fillmore3.1 miles12

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 MonicaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6899883The 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 508624. 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.