Manning Water Tower

Built in 1903. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.

From the record

“The Manning Water Tower is a historic structure located in Manning, Iowa, United States. It is significant as a good example of early 20th-century steel elevated water tower design, and its association with Anson Marston and the Chicago Bridge & Iron Company.”
Wikipedia article Manning Water Tower, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Carroll County · listed in 2016 · category: Structure · built in 1903.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 620 3rd St., Manning, 51455
When was it listed? May 2016
Category. structure
Township. Ewoldt township
When was it built? 1903
National Register reference number. 16000296 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

28 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Manning Water Tower 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

Every fire recorded in Carroll County

Storms near this property

38 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Manning, the town this property stands in, 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

Every storm recorded in Carroll County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

4 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Manning Commercial Historic District	0.1 miles	2015
Manning Milwaukee Railroad Trestle	0.4 miles	2020
Manning Milwaukee Railroad Trestle	0.5 miles	2020
Leet, William A., and Frederick Hassler Farmstead District	0.7 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 16000296 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Carroll County	All 20 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
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.