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Monico, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Monico town. It lies in ZIP code area 54501. The Survey maps it on the Monico quadrangle. It stands 1,601 feet above sea level.

Monico within Oneida County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

36 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Monico between 1992 and 2020, burning about 181 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use5
Other causes3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
25 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
20 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 August 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 August 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 July 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 July 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined24 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oneida County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Monico: 10 past producers, 3 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zinc, Copper. 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
Wolf River ProspectZinc, CopperUnknown
Mars Lake Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mars Lake Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Monico Creek Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Monico Gravel Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Monico Gravel Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Monico Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mud Creek Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Neptune Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pelican Lake Gravel Deposit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Oneida County

Storms near this place

5 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Monico in 5 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
August 1996Thunderstorm WindMonico$25,000no account filed
May 1994HailMonico$5,000no account filed
June 2024Thunderstorm WindMonico-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Monico. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindMonico-Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Monico. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
May 2017HailMonico-Quarter size hail fell southeast of Monico.

Every storm recorded in Oneida 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
Pelican Lake5.3 miles10
Gagen6.0 miles9
Lennox6.3 miles9
Jennings6.5 miles9
Pratt Junction6.5 miles10
Starks6.9 miles9
Malvern7.2 miles9
Enterprise7.7 miles10

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 MonicoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6900126The 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 1569652. 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.