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Manila, Arkansas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Big Lake Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72442. The Survey maps it on the Manila North quadrangle. 3,682 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 240 feet above sea level.

Manila within Mississippi County

On record in Manila

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Manila grew from 3,342 to 3,682 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20103,342
20203,682+340 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Manila in 2007, burning under an acre in total. None 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
Smoking1

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
23 June 2007Smokingunder an acreCentral Arkansas Refuges ComplexLEVEE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mississippi County

Storms near this place

35 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Manila in 35 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 16 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 6 flash flood, 2 tornado. The reports record 2 deaths and 12 injuries. 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
April 1998Tornado (F4)Manila2 killed, 12 hurt, $350,000The tornado began just west of Manila and tracked northeast. The tornado demolished or heavily damaged several homes including some mobile homes. Two children were killed in one of these mobile homes. The tornado continued northeast flattening a discount department store and an gas station/food mart. Three small factory and machine shop buildings as well as a furniture store were destroyed. Several other buildings were seriously damaged. The tornado reached the main residential section of Manila destroying several homes. Numerous trees and power lines were also blown down.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindManila$15,000Roof damage and powerlines downed at the intersection of Beauchamp Street and West Lake Street.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindManila$15,000An old house trailer was destroyed in Dyess. Several trees and power lines were knocked down across the county.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindManila$10,000Several trees and power lines were blown down.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindManila$10,000Two large trees and several power lines were blown down.
January 1999Thunderstorm WindManila$10,000Several power lines and power poles were blown down in the south part of Manila.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindManila$5,000Some trees were blown down.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindManila$5,000A few trees were knocked down.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindManila$5,000Some trees and power lines were blown down.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindManila$2,000Downed trees along Buttercup Lane in Manila.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindManila$2,000A tree was knocked down on to power poles in Manila.
March 1996Thunderstorm WindManila$2,000no account filed
April 2008HailManila$1,500no account filed
May 2025Thunderstorm WindManila$1,000Uprooted tree at Manila Housing Authority.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindManila$1,000A single tree was knocked down on Sandusky Lane.
June 2004Tornado (F0)Manila$1,000A tornado briefly touched down near Manila. A portion of a cotton field was destroyed. A couple of trees were blown down.
October 2003Flash FloodManila$1,000Several streets were covered with water.
January 1999Flash FloodManila$1,000Heavy rains during the evening hours produced scattered flash flooding across the county. Several roads were flooded during the early morning hours.
July 1997Flash FloodManila$1,000A few houses had water in them. Several roads had water over them.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindManila$1,000A few power lines were blown down.
July 1997Flash FloodManila$1,000Three inches of rain in 30 minutes produced flash flooding in Manila. Several roads were closed and water reached into a few homes.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindManila$1,000A few power lines were blown down.
February 2005HailManila$100no account filed
March 2005HailManila$10no account filed
October 2003HailManila$10no account filed
March 2025HailManila-Quarter sized hail in Manila.
May 2022HailManila-Nickel-sized hail was observed in Manila.
August 2018Flash FloodManila-Flooding of low lying areas and some county roads around Mississippi County.
March 2016Flash FloodManila-Heavy rain produced flash flooding in Manila. Water over six inches deep was common in the residential areas of Manila.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindManila-Straight line winds destroyed two camper trailers and a boat near Manila.
April 2020HailManila-no account filed
March 2017HailManila-no account filed
April 2011HailManila-no account filed
December 2010HailManila-no account filed
April 2010HailManila-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mississippi 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
Big Lake2.4 miles11
Brown (historical)3.1 miles11
Pettyville3.4 miles11
Shady Grove3.5 miles11
Poplar Corner3.6 miles11
Roseland4.2 miles11
Shonyo (historical)5.4 miles11
Buckeye5.5 miles11

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 ManilaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79626The 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 77588. 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.