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.
Population over time
2 figuresMonowi 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1 | |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 (0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1950 USGS Monowi quadrangle1:24000
- 1952 USGS Monowi quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS O'Neill quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS O'Neill quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1969 USGS O'Neill quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Atkinson quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS O'Neill quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
8 since 2002Regional 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 burning | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 July 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 19 July 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 1 July 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | 800 acres | Wagner Volunteer Fire Department | BIA-TRIBE-REINSCHMIDT LAND |
| 26 February 2012 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 1 December 2010 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 4 October 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | #37 DITCH |
| 30 January 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
| 18 January 2013 | Debris and open burning | 700 acres | Nebraska Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2009Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2019 | Flash Flood | Monowi | 1 killed, $12,000,000 | Heavy 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 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monowi | - | Large tree branches were broken by the winds of 50 to 60 mph. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Monowi | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Monowi | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monowi | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lynch | 7.2 miles | 11 | |
| Bristow | 13.5 miles | 11 | |
| Rosedale (historical) | 14.0 miles | 9 | |
| Gross | 15.2 miles | 9 | |
| Spencer | 19.9 miles | 10 | |
| Baker (historical) | 24.0 miles | 9 | |
| Anoka | 27.8 miles | 9 | |
| Butte | 28.1 miles | 9 |
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 Monowi | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q962405 | 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 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.






