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Monterey, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Monterey-New Columbus census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40359. It lies near Honeysuckle Hill. The Survey maps it on the Monterey quadrangle. 112 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 492 feet above sea level.

Monterey within Owen County

On record in Monterey

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Monterey fell from 167 to 112 between 2000 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
2000167
2010138-29 (-17%)
2020112-26 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Monterey between 1998 and 2016, burning about 24 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning1

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
24 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 May 1998Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 March 2009Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 March 2014Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGREENUP RD
28 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 November 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySHADY LN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Owen County

Storms near this place

12 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Monterey in 12 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 2004Thunderstorm WindMonterey$5,000Numerous trees and limbs were downed.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindMonterey$5,000Trees downed.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindMonterey$4,000Multiple trees were reported knocked down along Highway 355 from Gratz to Monterey.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindMonterey$4,000Trees were blown down.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindMonterey$3,000Several trees were knocked down along Kentucky Route 355.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindMonterey$3,000A few trees were knocked down.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindMonterey$3,000A few trees were downed.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindMonterey$2,000Trees were reported down in the area due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2007HailMonterey$1,000no account filed
January 2002Flash FloodMonterey-Several roads were flooded with swift moving water in and around town.
December 2023HailMonterey-no account filed
May 2003HailMonterey-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Owen 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
New3.3 miles12
Bradleyville (historical)3.4 miles13
Truesville (historical)5.2 miles13
Teresita5.5 miles12
Gratz5.6 miles12
Tacketts Mill5.8 miles13
Hesler5.8 miles12
Pleasant Home5.9 miles9

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 MontereyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2069995The 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 498496. 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.