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Monroe, Oregon

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Southeast Benton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97456. It stands on Shafer Creek. The Survey maps it on the Monroe quadrangle. 647 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 288 feet above sea level.

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Monroe within Benton County

On record in Monroe

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 3 records

Population over time

3 figures

Monroe grew from 607 to 647 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
2000607
2010617+10 (+2%)
2020647+30 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 19 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.

What the histories say of this town

2,197 words

1 chapter about Monroe from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.

ChapterFrom Length
HistoryHistory of Benton County, Oregon (1885)2,197 words

Fires near this place

23 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Monroe between 1992 and 2017, burning about 31 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use12
Debris and open burning5
Natural1
Other causes1
Arson/incendiarism1
Firearms and explosives use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
8 September 2014Smokingunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersBELLFOUNTAIN
4 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWestern Lane DistrictFERGUSON LAWN
23 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acrePhilomath UnitCHERRY CREEK
18 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acrePhilomath UnitHAMMER CR.
13 September 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWestern Lane DistrictJ.D.#1 FIRE
22 August 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWestern Lane DistrictBROWNING CREEK
18 August 2008Naturalunder an acreWestern Lane DistrictGRANGE FIRE
14 August 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersWIN RIDGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Monroe: 17 past producers, 7 producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Monroe Sandstone QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Borgaard PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Lucas Clay PitClayPast Producer
Lucas Clay PitClayPast Producer
Melvin BeckerSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Melvin Becker PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Monroe Brick & TileClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Benton County

Storms near this place

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Monroe in 4 storm reports between 2006 and 2024: 3 flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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
November 2024Funnel CloudMonroe-Received a report and image of a funnel cloud via a social media post. No reports of damage.
April 2019FloodMonroe-The Long Tom River near Monroe crested at 9.1 feet around 4 PM on April 8th, which is 0.1 foot above flood stage.
January 2006FloodMonroe-no account filed
January 2006FloodMonroe-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Benton 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
Alpine3.6 miles19
Bellfountain4.6 miles19
Glenbrook5.8 miles17
Dry Creek13.2 miles23
Philomath16.0 miles23
Flynn16.4 miles19
Alsea16.6 miles12
Noon16.8 miles19

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 MonroeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q576754The 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 1124292. 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.

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.