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West Monroe, Michigan

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Monroe Charter Township. It lies in ZIP code area 48161. It stands on Anweiler Drain. The Survey maps it on the Monroe quadrangle. 3,227 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 600 feet above sea level.

West Monroe within Monroe County

Population over time

2 figures

West Monroe fell from 3,503 to 3,227 between 2010 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
20103,503
20203,227-276 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

21 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of West Monroe between 2013 and 2020, burning about 28 acres in total. 5 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/undetermined11
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use5

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
18 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMONROE DIVISION OF PUBLIC SAFETY 0002859 - 2019
11 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMONROE TOWNSHIP VFD 1324 - 2019
4 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIDA TOWNSHIP VFD 237 - 2020
30 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMONROE TOWNSHIP VFD 1179 - 2018
15 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMONROE TOWNSHIP VFD 1129 - 2020
11 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMONROE DIVISION OF PUBLIC SAFETY 0002079 - 2019
9 June 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesIDA TOWNSHIP VFD 219 - 2019
19 June 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesFRENCHTOWN TOWNSHIP FD 19926 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of West Monroe: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
Otter Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Monroe QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Turtle Lake PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Monroe 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
Patterson Gardens0.3 miles17
Evergreen Acres0.5 miles17
South Monroe1.4 miles17
Monroe1.8 miles17
La Salle3.4 miles18
Strasburg3.8 miles18
Golfcrest3.8 miles18
Bolles Harbor4.0 miles18

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 West MonroeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2781300The 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 1867326. 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.