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Monroe Center, Wisconsin

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Monroe town. It lies in ZIP code area 54613. The Survey maps it on the Arkdale quadrangle. It stands 945 feet above sea level.

Monroe Center within Adams County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

128 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of Monroe Center between 1992 and 2018, burning about 155 acres in total. None started naturally. 16 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 burning41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Equipment and vehicle use21
Arson/incendiarism16
Recreation and ceremony9
Other causes6
Fireworks4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
5 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBIGHORN FIRE #3
5 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBIGHORN FIRE #4
5 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBIGHORN FIRE #2
5 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesBIGHORN FIRE #1
21 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 August 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 August 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
14 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.4 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Storms near this place

11 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Monroe Center in 11 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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
July 2023Thunderstorm WindMonroe Center$65,000Public reported fallen mature pine trees and power outages near Monroe Center.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindMonroe Center$65,000Public reported fallen mature pine trees and power outages in Monroe Center.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindMonroe Center$30,000Trees were blown down east of Monroe Center where at least one house was damaged when a tree fell on it.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindMonroe Center$25,000An estimated 70 mph wind gust occurred near Monroe Center. Several trees were blown down near Petenwell Lake and in Monroe Center. Some of these trees landed on houses in Monroe Center. Power lines were also taken down by the storm.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindMonroe Center$3,000Trees were blown down in Petenwell County Park.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindMonroe Center$1,000no account filed
June 2016HailMonroe Center-Quarter sized hail fell in Monroe Center.
December 2015Heavy RainMonroe Center-A total of 4.94 inches of rain fell.
October 2011HailMonroe Center-The hail covered the ground.
October 2011HailMonroe Center-Up to golf ball sized hail fell just east of Monroe Center.
May 1995HailMonroe Center-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Adams 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
Strongs Prairie4.0 miles8
Arkdale6.5 miles8
Roche a Cri (historical)6.9 miles7
Big Flats7.0 miles7
Cottonville8.0 miles7
New Rome8.0 miles8
Dellwood8.8 miles10
New Rome (historical)9.9 miles7

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 CenterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6902130The 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 1569658. 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.