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Monowi, Nebraska

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Bush Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68746. The Survey maps it on the Monowi quadrangle. 1 person lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,329 feet above sea level.

Monowi within Boyd County

Population over time

2 figures

Monowi grew from 1 to 1 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
20101
202010 (0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Monowi between 2002 and 2018, burning about 1,566 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
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
9 July 2010Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
19 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use20 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
1 July 2002Equipment and vehicle use800 acresWagner Volunteer Fire DepartmentBIA-TRIBE-REINSCHMIDT LAND
26 February 2012Debris and open burning40 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
1 December 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
4 October 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression#37 DITCH
30 January 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
18 January 2013Debris and open burning700 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boyd County

Storms near this place

5 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Monowi in 5 storm reports between 2009 and 2019: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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
March 2019Flash FloodMonowi1 killed, $12,000,000Heavy rain on top of frozen ground, rivers and streams led to historical runoff on the Niobrara River downstream of the Norden river crossing. At 6:46 AM CDT Holt County Dispatch reported the failure of Spencer Dam. A series of ice jams that developed upstream broke loose that led to a wall of water, large blocks of ice and debris that moved downstream to destroy the dam structure with flood waters to destroy the south bridge abutment on U.S. Highway 281 and the campground, bar and home immediately downstream of the dam. The flood caused one fatality.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindMonowi-Large tree branches were broken by the winds of 50 to 60 mph.
June 2017HailMonowi-no account filed
June 2017HailMonowi-no account filed
June 2009Thunderstorm WindMonowi-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boyd 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
Lynch7.2 miles11
Bristow13.5 miles11
Rosedale (historical)14.0 miles9
Gross15.2 miles9
Spencer19.9 miles10
Baker (historical)24.0 miles9
Anoka27.8 miles9
Butte28.1 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 MonowiAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q962405The 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 831379. 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.