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Monroe, Utah

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Monroe census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84754. It lies near Sand Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Annabella quadrangle. 2,515 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,394 feet above sea level.

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Monroe within Sevier 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

2 figures

Monroe grew from 2,256 to 2,515 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
20102,256
20202,515+259 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

94 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Monroe between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,751 acres in total. 68 started naturally. 3 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
Natural68
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism3
Firearms and explosives use2
Fireworks2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Debris and open burning1

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
6 September 2020Firearms and explosives useunder an acreCentral AreaJOE TOWN
5 September 2019Natural18 acresRichfield Field OfficeMINI GOLF
5 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFishlake National ForestTHOMPSON BASIN RD
30 September 2008Naturalunder an acreFishlake National ForestSCRUB FLAT WFU
28 September 2004Naturalunder an acreFishlake National ForestTROGDOR
27 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral AreaWASHBURN
24 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRichfield Field OfficeRIVER BOTTOM 2
22 September 2000Naturalunder an acreFishlake National ForestSAND CANYON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sevier County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Monroe: 11 past producers, 9 producers, 3 occurrences, 2 prospects. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Geothermal. 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 Hot SpringsGeothermalUnknown
GeorgiaManganesePast Producer1918
Jumbo ProspectManganeseProspect1940
Noonday ProspectManganesePast ProducerPyrolusite
Noonday ProspectManganeseProspect1940
RichfieldManganeseOccurrence
Elsinore Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerGravel
Elsinore Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Utah Dept Highways Pit 21006Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Utah Dept Highways Pit 21007Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Sevier County

Storms near this place

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Monroe in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 wildfire, 1 hail, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1997WildfireMonroe1 killed, $20,000no account filed
June 2011FloodMonroe$150,000The Sevier River at Sigurd peaked at 1728 cfs on June 1st, then remained above flood stage for more than a week after that as it slowly receded. Many roads across Sevier county continued to be impacted and damaged, including State Road 118 between Joseph and Monroe, the Sevier River Road between Central Valley and Annabella, and Seegmiller Lane near Richfield. In addition, flood waters seeped into about a dozen homes, while threatening more than a dozen others.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindMonroe$10,000A strong thunderstorm ripped through the Sevier Valley, knocking down a 200-foot section of building in Richfield, and blowing down large trees in Monroe. The strongest recorded wind gust was 48 mph (42 kts), but stronger gusts likely occurred with this storm.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindMonroe-Signal Peak RAWS station reported a peak wind gust of 60 mph.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindMonroe-A peak wind gust of 60 mph was recorded by the Signal Peak sensor.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindMonroe-The Monroe sensor recorded a peak wind gust of 64 mph.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindMonroe-The Signal Peak RAWS recorded a peak wind gust of 60 mph.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindMonroe-The Signal Peak RAWS recorded a maximum wind gust of 59 mph.
July 2001HailMonroe-Monroe reported 3/4" hail from a severe thunderstorm.
March 1998Thunderstorm WindMonroe-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sevier 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
Austin2.9 miles17
Elsinore3.9 miles17
Nibley3.9 miles17
Joseph5.1 miles17
Central Valley5.2 miles17
Annabella6.3 miles17
Jensen6.6 miles17
Cove7.2 miles18

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 Q483264The 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 1443556. 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.