BlockManchester, Illinois
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Manchester precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 62663. The Survey maps it on the Manchester quadrangle. 265 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 686 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresManchester fell from 292 to 265 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 | 292 | |
| 2020 | 265 | -27 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 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.
- 1924 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1924 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:48000
- 1926 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Quincy quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1983 USGS Manchester quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Meredosia quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Meredosia quadrangle1:100000
Storms near this place
9 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Manchester in 9 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 3 injuries. 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 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manchester | 3 hurt | Thunderstorm winds destroyed 2 mobile homes 4 miles north of Manchester. One mobile home was occupied at the time and 3 of the 5 occupants sustained minor injuries. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manchester | - | A large tree was blown down, crushing a fence. |
| May 2020 | Flash Flood | Manchester | - | A viaduct and several streets were flooded in the town of Manchester. |
| September 2009 | Flash Flood | Manchester | - | A narrow band of very heavy rainfall produced flash flooding in extreme eastern Scott County. Rainfall amounts of 2.50 to 3.50 inches were reported near the Scott/Morgan County line. Many rural roads were flooded, including streets in Manchester. |
| March 2006 | Tornado (F2) | Manchester | - | A tornado entered Scott county from Greene county (WFO Saint Louis). Tornado continued northeast into Morgan county. |
| July 2017 | Hail | Manchester | - | no account filed |
| January 2008 | Hail | Manchester | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Manchester | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alsey | 5.5 miles | 12 | |
| Glasgow | 7.9 miles | 12 | |
| Winchester | 8.9 miles | 12 | |
| Riggston | 11.6 miles | 12 | |
| Merritt | 12.7 miles | 12 | |
| Bridgeport (historical) | 13.1 miles | 12 | |
| Bloomfield | 14.1 miles | 13 | |
| Exeter | 15.1 miles | 12 |
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 Q2269252 | 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 412880. 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.
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.