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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.

Manilla within Crawford County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Manilla 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.

YearPeople Change
2010776
2020775-1 (-0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

7 since 2006

Regional 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
22 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 May 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 2013Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 2013Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 March 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 February 2012Debris and open burning30 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

16 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1996Thunderstorm WindManilla$25,000no account filed
April 2002HailManilla$20,000no account filed
May 1998HailManilla$15,000no account filed
May 2017Thunderstorm WindManilla$5,000Emergency manager reported damage to an outbuilding.
May 2017HailManilla$5,000Emergency manager reported golf ball sized hail in the city of Manilla.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindManilla$5,000no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindManilla$5,000no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindManilla$5,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindManilla$3,000no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindManilla$2,000no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindManilla$2,000no account filed
August 2025Thunderstorm WindManilla$1,000Emergency manager reported a snapped light pole and a tree down in Manilla. Time estimated from radar.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindManilla$1,000no account filed
April 2024HailManilla-Report of up to quarter sized hail.
June 2001Tornado (F0)Manilla-Brief touchdown in open country.
May 2005HailManilla-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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
Astor2.3 miles8
Aspinwall5.3 miles8
Buck Grove8.9 miles8
Sunset Village10.7 miles8
Denison11.0 miles8
Kimze11.0 miles8
Vail12.0 miles8
Arion12.9 miles8

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 ManillaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q597328The 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.