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.
Population over time
2 figuresMonroe 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 160 | |
| 2020 | 159 | -1 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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.
- 1898 USGS Parker quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Sioux Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Parker quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Freeman quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
39 since 1999Regional 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/undetermined | 18 |
| Debris and open burning | 16 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
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 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Monroe Volunteer Fire Department | RANDY PULLMAN |
| 7 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Monroe Volunteer Fire Department | FRED PLUCKER |
| 26 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | ARBACH FIRE |
| 4 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | UNKOWN |
| 30 June 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | DITCH FIRE |
| 2 June 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | UNKOWN |
| 19 June 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
| 15 June 2006 | Natural | 4.5 acres | South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
19 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1998 | Tornado (F1) | Monroe | $50,000 | no account filed |
| September 2019 | Flood | Monroe | $25,000 | After 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 2024 | Flood | Monroe | - | 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 2023 | Hail | Monroe | - | Hail varied from quarter to half-dollar size. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monroe | - | A grain bin was destroyed by thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2019 | Flood | Monroe | - | 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 2019 | Flood | Monroe | - | 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 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monroe | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including several branches blown down. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Monroe | - | Thunderstorm winds caused tree damage, including up to 8 inch diameter limbs blown down. |
| August 2017 | Hail | Monroe | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Monroe | - | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Hail | Monroe | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Monroe | - | no account filed |
| November 2005 | Hail | Monroe | - | no account filed |
| November 2005 | Hail | Monroe | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Monroe | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Monroe | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Monroe | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Monroe | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marion | 5.0 miles | 11 | |
| Parker | 7.4 miles | 11 | |
| Dolton | 9.0 miles | 11 | |
| Chancellor | 14.4 miles | 10 | |
| Hurley | 15.5 miles | 11 | |
| Turkey Ridge | 17.1 miles | 11 | |
| Davis | 19.6 miles | 10 | |
| Spring Valley | 19.7 miles | 11 |
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 Monroe | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3240090 | 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 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.




