Manning, Iowa
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Ewoldt Township. It lies in ZIP code area 51455. The Survey maps it on the Manning quadrangle. 1,455 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,358 feet above sea level.
On record in Manning
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 4 records
- Leet, William A., and Frederick Hassler Farmstead Districtlisted 1999
- Manning Commercial Historic Districtlisted 2015
- Manning Milwaukee Railroad Trestlelisted 2020
- Manning Water Towerlisted 2016
Population over time
2 figuresManning fell from 1,500 to 1,455 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 | 1,500 | |
| 2020 | 1,455 | -45 (-3%) |
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 Manning quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Harlan quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
28 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Manning between 2006 and 2016, burning about 366 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 30 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 22 August 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 40 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 1 August 2012 | Smoking | 5.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 July 2012 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 9 June 2012 | Smoking | 10 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 June 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
38 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Manning in 38 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 14 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 7 heavy rain, 2 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manning | $35,000 | no account filed |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manning | $25,000 | Numerous trees were blown down. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Manning | $25,000 | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Manning | $25,000 | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manning | $25,000 | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manning | $10,000 | Law Enforcement reported power outages in the Manning area. |
| June 2010 | Heavy Rain | Manning | $10,000 | Overnight total of 2 inches. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manning | $10,000 | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manning | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Manning | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Manning | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manning | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manning | $3,000 | Tree limbs were blown down. |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manning | $3,000 | Two vehicles were blown off of the road. |
| September 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manning | $3,000 | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Manning | $3,000 | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Manning | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Manning | $2,000 | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manning | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Manning | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Manning | $200 | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Funnel Cloud | Manning | - | Trained spotters reported a funnel cloud southwest of Halbur. Time and location estimated by radar. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manning | - | Wind gust report from a personal weather station. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Manning | - | Dime to quarter sized hail. |
| June 2020 | Funnel Cloud | Manning | - | Trained spotter reports seeing a funnel cloud just north of Manning, Iowa. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manning | - | A trained spotter reported a large tree limb 6 inches in diameter and 20 feet long was downed. Several smaller limbs were downed as well. |
| June 2018 | Hail | Manning | - | Public reported half dollar sized hail via social media. |
| April 2017 | Heavy Rain | Manning | - | Public reported heavy rainfall of 1.24 inches. |
| August 2017 | Heavy Rain | Manning | - | CoCoRaHS observer reported heavy rainfall of 3.37 inches over the last 24 hours. |
| November 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Manning | - | Public report of tornado. Pictures taken by nearby residents indicated narrow path through cornfield. |
| November 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manning | - | Trained spotter reported thunderstorm winds of approximately 60 mph. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Manning | - | Pea to nickel size hail was reported. |
| June 2011 | Heavy Rain | Manning | - | Brief heavy rainfall with minor street flooding reported in Manning. |
| July 2010 | Heavy Rain | Manning | - | Measured rainfall in the past 1.5 hours was 3 inches. |
| June 2008 | Heavy Rain | Manning | - | Rainfall total from last night was 3.10 inches. |
| May 2008 | Heavy Rain | Manning | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Manning | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Manning | - | 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.
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 Manning | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2233616 | 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 458762. 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.




