Editing Mainpuri (section)

==Geography==
Mainpuri is located on a branch of the historical [[Grand Trunk Road]], about 55 km from the city of [[Etawah]] and 116 &nbsp;km from the city of [[Agra]].<!-- Gazetteer 1910, p. 229 --> The [[Isan river]] is on the east side of town.<!-- Gazetteer 1910, p. 229 --> Mainpuri is about 5&nbsp;km downstream from the point where the Isan receives the [[Kak Nadi]] as a tributary.<!-- Gazetteer 1910, p. 13 --> In this area, up until about 1&nbsp;km downstream of Mainpuri, the Isan has a relatively shallow bed and often overflows during the monsoon season.<!-- Gazetteer 1910, p. 13 --> Three bridges cross the Isan river in Mainpuri; the northernmost is by the Devi temple on the road to [[Kuraoli]].<!-- Gazetteer 1910, p. 13 --> The soil in this area is a mix of loam and ''[[usar]]''.<!-- Gazetteer 1910, p. 13 --><ref name="Gazetteer 1910">{{cite book |editor1-last=Neave|editor1-first=E. R. |title=Mainpuri: A Gazetteer, Being Volume X of the District Gazetteers of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh |date=1910 |publisher=Government Press |location=Allahabad |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.48097 |access-date=19 June 2023}}</ref>{{rp|13, 229}}

On the south of Mainpuri is the railway, along with the train station.<!-- Gazetteer 1910, p. 229 --> [[Mainpuri railway station]] was deliberately built in the middle of an unproductive ''usar'' plain so it wouldn't take away from the available farmland.<!-- Gazetteer 1910, p. 231 --><ref name="Gazetteer 1910"/>{{rp|229, 231}}

The main street in Mainpuri is a section of the Agra road running east–west through town.<!-- Gazetteer 1910, p. 229 --> This is the main commercial centre and many of the public buildings are built here.<!-- Gazetteer 1910, p. 229 --> The [[Bhanwat]] road branches off from the main road and heads south to the train station.<!-- Gazetteer 1910, p. 230 --><ref name="Gazetteer 1910"/>{{rp|229–30}}

Mainpuri historically consisted of two separate settlements: [[Mainpuri Khas]], the old town, in the north and surrounding the raja's ''garhi'' (fort-palace complex); and Mukhamganj, or Ganj, further south on the main road.<!-- Gazetteer 1910, p. 229 --> The Katra road historically marked the southern boundary of Mainpuri Khas.<!-- Gazetteer 1910, p. 230 --> Mainpuri Khas was historically surrounded by a wall, with six gates.<!-- Gazetteer 1910, p. 229 --> The names of five are known: the Debi, Tal, Madar, Deoraya, and Ganesh Darwazas.<!-- Gazetteer 1910, p. 229 --> The name of the sixth is not recorded.<!-- Gazetteer 1910, p. 229 --> Nagaria, a suburb of Mainpuri, is near where the Tal Darwaza once stood.<!-- Gazetteer 1910, p. 231 --><ref name="Gazetteer 1910"/>{{rp|229–31}}

===Climate===
{{Weather box
|location = Mainpuri (1981–2010, extremes 1901–2005)
|metric first = yes
|single line = yes
|width = auto
| Jan record high C = 31.4
| Feb record high C = 35.2
| Mar record high C = 41.7
| Apr record high C = 45.8
| May record high C = 49.2
| Jun record high C = 49.2
| Jul record high C = 46.2
| Aug record high C = 42.6
| Sep record high C = 42.4
| Oct record high C = 40.6
| Nov record high C = 37.6
| Dec record high C = 33.0
|year record high C = 49.2
| Jan high C = 22.7
| Feb high C = 26.0
| Mar high C = 31.5
| Apr high C = 38.3
| May high C = 41.0
| Jun high C = 40.3
| Jul high C = 35.2
| Aug high C = 33.4
| Sep high C = 33.7
| Oct high C = 33.5
| Nov high C = 29.4
| Dec high C = 24.7
|year high C = 32.4
| Jan low C = 7.1
| Feb low C = 9.6
| Mar low C = 14.7
| Apr low C = 21.0
| May low C = 25.4
| Jun low C = 26.7
| Jul low C = 25.4
| Aug low C = 25.0
| Sep low C = 24.2
| Oct low C = 19.8
| Nov low C = 13.8
| Dec low C = 8.4
|year low C = 18.4
| Jan record low C = -1.7
| Feb record low C = -0.6
| Mar record low C = 5.0
| Apr record low C = 10.7
| May record low C = 15.6
| Jun record low C = 17.6
| Jul record low C = 16.8
| Aug record low C = 18.6
| Sep record low C = 8.2
| Oct record low C = 9.6
| Nov record low C = 2.2
| Dec record low C = -1.1
|year record low C = -1.7
| rain colour = green
| Jan rain mm = 11.3
| Feb rain mm = 13.5
| Mar rain mm = 8.5
| Apr rain mm = 5.7
| May rain mm = 14.8
| Jun rain mm = 71.3
| Jul rain mm = 207.7
| Aug rain mm = 233.6
| Sep rain mm = 159.7
| Oct rain mm = 33.4
| Nov rain mm = 3.4
| Dec rain mm = 6.0
|year rain mm = 768.9
| Jan rain days = 1.1
| Feb rain days = 1.0
| Mar rain days = 0.9
| Apr rain days = 0.5
| May rain days = 1.5
| Jun rain days = 3.4
| Jul rain days = 9.1
| Aug rain days = 10.0
| Sep rain days = 7.1
| Oct rain days = 1.8
| Nov rain days = 0.4
| Dec rain days = 0.6
|year rain days = 37.4
|time day = 17:30 [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]
| Jan humidity = 71
| Feb humidity = 62
| Mar humidity = 53
| Apr humidity = 32
| May humidity = 33
| Jun humidity = 43
| Jul humidity = 64
| Aug humidity = 73
| Sep humidity = 71
| Oct humidity = 65
| Nov humidity = 67
| Dec humidity = 73
|year humidity = 59
|source 1 = [[India Meteorological Department]]<ref name=IMDnormals>
{{cite web
| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20200205040301/http://imdpune.gov.in/library/public/1981-2010%20CLIM%20NORMALS%20%28STATWISE%29.pdf
| archivedate = 5 February 2020
| url = https://imdpune.gov.in/library/public/1981-2010%20CLIM%20NORMALS%20%28STATWISE%29.pdf
| title = Station: Mainpuri Climatological Table 1981–2010
| work = Climatological Normals 1981–2010
| publisher = India Meteorological Department
| date = January 2015
| pages = 461–462
| accessdate = 22 September 2020}}</ref><ref name=IMDextremes>
{{cite web
| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20200205042509/http://imdpune.gov.in/library/public/EXTREMES%20OF%20TEMPERATURE%20and%20RAINFALL%20upto%202012.pdf
| archivedate = 5 February 2020
| url = https://imdpune.gov.in/library/public/EXTREMES%20OF%20TEMPERATURE%20and%20RAINFALL%20upto%202012.pdf
| title = Extremes of Temperature & Rainfall for Indian Stations (Up to 2012)
| publisher = India Meteorological Department
| date = December 2016
| page = M219
| accessdate = 22 September 2020}}</ref>
}}