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Monroe, South Dakota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Monroe town. It lies in ZIP code area 57047. The Survey maps it on the Parker quadrangle. 159 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,493 feet above sea level.

Monroe within Turner County

Population over time

2 figures

Monroe fell from 160 to 159 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
2010160
2020159-1 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

39 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Monroe between 1999 and 2020, burning about 391 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined18
Debris and open burning16
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1
Natural1

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 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMonroe Volunteer Fire DepartmentRANDY PULLMAN
7 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresMonroe Volunteer Fire DepartmentFRED PLUCKER
26 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionARBACH FIRE
4 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionUNKOWN
30 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionDITCH FIRE
2 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire SuppressionUNKOWN
19 June 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named
15 June 2006Natural4.5 acresSouth Dakota Wildland Fire Suppressionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Turner County

Storms near this place

19 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Monroe in 19 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 11 hail, 4 flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
May 1998Tornado (F1)Monroe$50,000no account filed
September 2019FloodMonroe$25,000After excessive two-day rainfall in the headwaters of the Vermillion River (6.78 inches 2 miles east of Montrose, 5.63 inches at Montrose), the East Fork of the Vermillion River near Parker (gage site VRPS2) reached the highest crest on record of 5.09 feet above flood stage on September 13. Numerous county roads and bridges from the gaging site upstream were inundated.
June 2024FloodMonroe-The East Fork of the Vermillion River near Parker rose above flood stage the morning of June 21st, cresting around 5.53 feet above flood stage (17.53 feet) on June 22nd. This crest is in the Major Stage. The river then fell below flood stage on the morning of June 26th. For a more comprehensive description of flood damage, please see other entries for Turner County.
August 2023HailMonroe-Hail varied from quarter to half-dollar size.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindMonroe-A grain bin was destroyed by thunderstorm winds.
May 2019FloodMonroe-The East Fork of the Vermillion River near Parker (gage site VRPS2) reached a crest of 0.18 feet above flood stage on May 29. Impacts were mainly agricultural, causing further delays to spring planting and preparations throughout the flood plain.
March 2019FloodMonroe-Snow melt and heavy rainfall (measured 3.13 inches at Bridgewater and 2.75 inches at Montrose) resulted in extensive flooding of agricultural lands and inundation of numerous county and township roads (including bridges on 455th and 456th Avenue east of Parker). Water briefly flowed across State Highway 19 east of Parker. The East Fork of the Vermillion River near Parker (gage site VRPS2) reached the highest stage on record cresting 4.09 feet above flood stage on March 14.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindMonroe-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several branches blown down.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindMonroe-Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including up to 8 inch diameter limbs blown down.
August 2017HailMonroe-no account filed
June 2013HailMonroe-no account filed
July 2009HailMonroe-no account filed
May 2005HailMonroe-no account filed
November 2005HailMonroe-no account filed
November 2005HailMonroe-no account filed
May 2004HailMonroe-no account filed
June 2003HailMonroe-no account filed
May 2002HailMonroe-no account filed
June 1999HailMonroe-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Turner 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
Marion5.0 miles11
Parker7.4 miles11
Dolton9.0 miles11
Chancellor14.4 miles10
Hurley15.5 miles11
Turkey Ridge17.1 miles11
Davis19.6 miles10
Spring Valley19.7 miles11

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 Q3240090The 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 1265671. 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.