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Monticello, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Winfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75455. It stands on Smith Creek. The Survey maps it on the Monticello quadrangle.

Monticello within Titus County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

280 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 280 fires within 5 miles of Monticello between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,068 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 14 were 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 burning166
Missing data/not specified/undetermined48
Equipment and vehicle use26
Arson/incendiarism14
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
8 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service14-804
8 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
8 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use48 acresTexas A & M Forest Service6300
7 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service11-933
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 2131
4 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 2601
4 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 2609

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Titus County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Monticello: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
UnknownClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Titus County

Storms near this place

4 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Monticello in 4 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 2026Thunderstorm WindMonticello-Trees uprooted along FM Road 127 between FM Road 21 in Monticello.
March 2013HailMonticello-Hail was reported on Bob Sandlin Bridge.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindMonticello-One tree was downed southwest of town.
April 1996HailMonticello-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Titus 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
Blodgett2.3 miles8
West Midway2.9 miles8
White Oak Springs3.9 miles8
Millers Cove4.4 miles8
Winfield5.1 miles8
Farmers Academy5.4 miles8
Mount Pleasant7.5 miles10
West New Hope8.4 miles8

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 MonticelloAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q129165021The 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 1341840. 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.