BlockManchester, Georgia
22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Manchester census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31816. It stands on Hurricane Branch. The Survey maps it on the Manchester quadrangle. 3,584 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 883 feet above sea level.
On record in Manchester
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
Manchester Community Buildinglisted 2002
Population over time
2 figuresManchester fell from 4,230 to 3,584 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 4,230 | |
| 2020 | 3,584 | -646 (-15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 22 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1907 USGS Talbotton quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1934 USGS Warm Springs quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
- 1936 USGS Warm Springs quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Manchester quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Thomaston quadrangle1:100000
Photographs
2 photographs, 2017Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
244 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 244 fires within 5 miles of Manchester between 1992 and 2020, burning about 808 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 32 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 138 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 32 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 19 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 14 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Smoking | 6 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020MERIWETHER004 |
| 9 September 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-TALBOT-007 |
| 8 September 2016 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-TALBOT-005 |
| 30 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-TALBOT-009 |
| 29 September 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Manchester: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Kaolin, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| G.B. Grant Property | Iron | Past Producer | Residual | |
| Warm Springs Bauxite | Kaolin | Past Producer | 1910, 1915 |
Storms near this place
19 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Manchester in 19 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 15 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2011 | Hail | Manchester | $98,000 | The Meriwether County Emergency Management Director reported golf ball-sized hail along the southern border of the county near Manchester. This hail was from the same supercell thunderstorm that spawned an EF0 tornado in northeast Harris county and also dumped baseball-sized hail across central and northeast Harris county near Hamilton and Pine Mountain Valley. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manchester | $20,000 | The public reported that a tree had fallen on a home on Spruce Street in Manchester, causing moderate damage to the roof of the home. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manchester | $8,000 | Tree down on a house and vehicle in Manchester. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manchester | $5,000 | Multiple trees down in the city of manchester. One tree on a house in the 600 block of atlantic st. Trees down on 4th and 5th street along with powerlines down. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manchester | $5,000 | Several trees reported down across much of southern Meriwether County, particularly near Warm Springs and Manchester. |
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manchester | $2,500 | Several trees were knocked down by thunderstorm winds. Falling trees caused structural damage to a couple of homes, as well as a fence and sidewalk. In another incident a man narrowly escaped injury when a tree fell on his car as he travelled east on Foster Street. |
| April 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manchester | $2,500 | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Heavy Rain | Manchester | $2,000 | The Manchester Star Mercury reported that heavy rain, upwards of two inches during the afternoon on already saturated ground, caused a 27-foot long gas tank at the Quick Stop Food Mart on Georgia Highway 85 to rise out of the ground. This occurred despite the fact that there were eight inches of concrete on top of the tank. The tank had been empty for some time. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manchester | $2,000 | The Meriwether County 911 center reported that several trees were down across U.S. Highway Alternate 27/Georgia Highway 85. |
| March 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manchester | $2,000 | A storm spotter reported several trees down in Manchester, one of which was down on Georgia Highway 190. |
| March 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manchester | $2,000 | The Georgia Highway Department reported several trees down in the city of Manchester. |
| March 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manchester | $2,000 | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manchester | $1,000 | A tree limb downed a powerline leading to outages in northern Manchester. |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manchester | $1,000 | The public reported that two large tree limbs were down on power lines at Perry Street and Lee Street. |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manchester | $750 | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manchester | $500 | Thunderstorm winds knocked trees down along Georgia Highway 222 between Woodbury and Manchester. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manchester | $250 | A trained spotter reported one large oak tree and several large branches down on Spruce Street in Manchester. |
| March 2011 | Hail | Manchester | - | The public observed quarter-sized hail across the far southern part of Meriwether county. This was from the same thunderstorm cell that brought golf ball-sized hail to north central and northeast Harris county. |
| June 1999 | Hail | Manchester | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bulloch Crossroads | 1.1 miles | 22 | |
| Bussey Crossroads | 1.7 miles | 22 | |
| Loftin | 2.1 miles | 22 | |
| Chalybeate Springs | 2.1 miles | 22 | |
| Routons Crossroads | 2.4 miles | 22 | |
| Bullochville (historical) | 2.9 miles | 22 | |
| Johnson Crossroads | 3.1 miles | 22 | |
| Nebula | 3.1 miles | 22 |
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 Manchester | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1023490 | The 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 317652. 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.