| Monticello is a city in White County, Indiana.
The city is the county seat of White County. Monticello
is known as a tourist destination in north-central Indiana and is home
to the Indiana Beach amusement park, Lake Shafer, and Lake Freeman.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area
of 3.0 square miles of which 2.8 square miles of it is land and 0.2 square
miles of it (7.31%) is water.
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Monticello, Indiana sustained serious damage
by a tornado on April 3, 1974, part the Super Outbreak that caused death
and destruction across the midwest and south. |
| The aftermath of this storm is
recorded in the Herald Journal's book, Killer Tornado. The tornado was classified
as an F4 on the Fujita scale (now EF5 on the Enhanced Fujita scale). This
storm killed eight people and was part of a tornado family that killed 18,
causing an estimated $100 million in damage. The local paper said the aftermath
was similar to a World War II bombing. |
Monticello was dealt a serious blow on September 2, 2005, when Jordan Manufacturing
burned down. The company manufactured outdoor furniture. Due to the materials
used in making these products, four city blocks were contaminated with toxins.
The blaze was large enough to require firefighters from 7 surrounding communities
to battle it and needed close to "3000 gallons of water per minute
for the first three hours of the blaze." (Herald Journal Weekend Edition
of September 3–4-5, 2005) While such a fire might not be a big event
for a larger city, this event had a profound impact on Monticello, as Jordan
Manufacturing was one of the few manufacturing plants left in the city after
a recession in the 2000s. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monticello,_Indiana) |
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is a nice enough campground, but they do try to sell you one of several
types of RV timeshare plans.