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.
Population over time
2 figuresWest 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 3,503 | |
| 2020 | 3,227 | -276 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1912 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:62500
- 1914 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:62500
- 1927 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:31680
- 1942 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1952 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Toledo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
21 since 2013Regional 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/undetermined | 11 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MONROE DIVISION OF PUBLIC SAFETY 0002859 - 2019 |
| 11 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MONROE TOWNSHIP VFD 1324 - 2019 |
| 4 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | IDA TOWNSHIP VFD 237 - 2020 |
| 30 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MONROE TOWNSHIP VFD 1179 - 2018 |
| 15 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MONROE TOWNSHIP VFD 1129 - 2020 |
| 11 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | MONROE DIVISION OF PUBLIC SAFETY 0002079 - 2019 |
| 9 June 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | IDA TOWNSHIP VFD 219 - 2019 |
| 19 June 2019 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Michigan Department of Natural Resources | FRENCHTOWN TOWNSHIP FD 19926 - 2019 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Otter Limestone Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | ||
| Monroe Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Turtle Lake Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Patterson Gardens | 0.3 miles | 17 | |
| Evergreen Acres | 0.5 miles | 17 | |
| South Monroe | 1.4 miles | 17 | |
| Monroe | 1.8 miles | 17 | |
| La Salle | 3.4 miles | 18 | |
| Strasburg | 3.8 miles | 18 | |
| Golfcrest | 3.8 miles | 18 | |
| Bolles Harbor | 4.0 miles | 18 |
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 Monroe | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2781300 | The 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.








