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Monches, Wisconsin

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Merton town. It lies in ZIP code area 53029. The Survey maps it on the Merton quadrangle. It stands 928 feet above sea level.

Monches within Waukesha County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 22 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.

In the county-history sources

26,045 words on this township

The History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources; an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities, Towns and Villages--their Improvements, Industries, Manufactories, Churches, Schools and Societies; Its War Record, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers; the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin, Statistics of the State, and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution and of the Constitution of the United States, published 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Merton Town covers the township.

Read the chapter on Merton Town - 26,045 words.

Fires near this place

23 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Monches between 2004 and 2020, burning about 133 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use2
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 June 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1900183
20 June 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 June 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20259
8 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1800143
25 May 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20223
1 May 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18192
30 April 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1800130
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1800125

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waukesha County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Monches: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Lutz Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
North Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sussex PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Waukesha County

Storms near this place

1 since 2026

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Monches in 1 storm report in 2026: 1 hail. 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 2026HailMonches-Public report of 1.25 inch diameter hail south of Richfield.

Every storm recorded in Waukesha 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
Camp Whitcomb1.6 miles22
North Lake2.8 miles22
Merton3.6 miles22
Lake Five3.9 miles22
Stonebank4.9 miles22
Lisbon5.8 miles20
Hartland5.9 miles22
Chenequa6.1 miles23

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 MonchesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6898490The 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 1569646. 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.