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Monarch, Wyoming

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Sheridan West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82839. It stands on South Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Monarch quadrangle. It stands 3,655 feet above sea level.

Monarch within Sheridan County

On record in Monarch

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

37 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Monarch between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,742 acres in total. 5 started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Natural5
Debris and open burning5
Smoking1
Fireworks1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 September 2014Fireworks40 acresWyoming State ForestryMP 15.50 I-90 EAST BOUND
8 September 1998Natural210 acresCasper Field OfficeIVY
14 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
13 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
13 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.2 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
25 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresSheridan CountyHIGHWAY 338
18 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
15 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sheridan County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Monarch: 3 producers, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Pumice, 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
Guernsey Stone QuarryPumiceProducer
UnknownClayProducer
Tongue River Stone CoStoneProducer
UnknownStoneOccurrence

Every working recorded in Sheridan 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
Kleenburn1.2 miles15
Acme2.7 miles11
Ranchester6.8 miles15
Sheridan8.4 miles13
Beckton11.8 miles17
Dayton12.2 miles15
Wolf14.1 miles15
Powder Horn14.6 miles13

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 MonarchAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6897975The 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 1597415. 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.