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Monell, Wyoming

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Wamsutter census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82901. The Survey maps it on the Table Rock quadrangle.

Monell within Sweetwater County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Monell between 1994 and 2016, burning about 21 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
Natural5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 2004Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresRock Springs Field OfficeMONELL
14 September 2002Natural4.0 acresRock Springs Field OfficeBAR 10
4 August 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreRock Springs Field OfficeADOBE
2 August 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeRR 2
17 August 1994Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreRock Springs Field OfficeTABLE ROCK
16 August 2015Naturalunder an acreRock Springs Field OfficeELECTRIC
20 July 2002Natural9.0 acresRock Springs Field OfficePATRICK DR
16 July 2014Natural6.1 acresRock Springs Field OfficeTABLE ROCK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sweetwater 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 Monell: 2 occurrences, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium. 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
State Highway Department Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownUraniumOccurrence
UnknownUraniumOccurrence
Unknown Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Sweetwater County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Monell in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2019: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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
June 2019Thunderstorm WindMonell-The weather sensor at Bitter Creek along Interstate 80 had a wind gust to 76 mph.
October 2016Funnel CloudMonell-A rope funnel cloud was photographed over the higher terrain near Table Rock south of Interstate 80.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindMonell-A wind gust to 74 mph was measured at the Bitter Creek observation site along Interstate 80.

Every storm recorded in Sweetwater 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
Bitter Creek4.7 miles7
Table Rock5.3 miles7
J O Junction6.2 miles7
Robinson8.6 miles7
Tipton12.0 miles7
Fort LaClede (historical)13.1 miles6
Point of Rocks17.1 miles8
Red Desert19.7 miles8

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.

Wikidata item Q122572723The 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 1597416. 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.