Manilla, Iowa
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Nishnabotny Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51454. The Survey maps it on the Manilla quadrangle. 775 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,355 feet above sea level.
On record in Manilla
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 3 records
Nishnabotna River Bridgelisted 1998
Nishnabotna River Bridgelisted 1999- Klondike Hotellisted 1996
Population over time
2 figuresManilla fell from 776 to 775 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 | 776 | |
| 2020 | 775 | -1 (-0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1954 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Manilla quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Harlan quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
7 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Manilla between 2006 and 2014, burning about 46 acres 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 May 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 April 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 April 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 26 April 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 31 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 2 February 2012 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
16 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Manilla in 16 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manilla | $25,000 | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Manilla | $20,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Manilla | $15,000 | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manilla | $5,000 | Emergency manager reported damage to an outbuilding. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Manilla | $5,000 | Emergency manager reported golf ball sized hail in the city of Manilla. |
| September 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manilla | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manilla | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manilla | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manilla | $3,000 | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manilla | $2,000 | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manilla | $2,000 | no account filed |
| August 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manilla | $1,000 | Emergency manager reported a snapped light pole and a tree down in Manilla. Time estimated from radar. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manilla | $1,000 | no account filed |
| April 2024 | Hail | Manilla | - | Report of up to quarter sized hail. |
| June 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Manilla | - | Brief touchdown in open country. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Manilla | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Astor | 2.3 miles | 8 | |
| Aspinwall | 5.3 miles | 8 | |
| Buck Grove | 8.9 miles | 8 | |
| Sunset Village | 10.7 miles | 8 | |
| Denison | 11.0 miles | 8 | |
| Kimze | 11.0 miles | 8 | |
| Vail | 12.0 miles | 8 | |
| Arion | 12.9 miles | 8 |
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 Manilla | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q597328 | 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 458757. 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.




