Manchester, Indiana

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Manchester Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47001. It lies near Union Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Sunman quadrangle. It stands 919 feet above sea level.

Manchester within Dearborn County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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.

1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Sunman quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Greensburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

3,544 words on this township

History of Dearborn County Indiana, published 1915 names this settlement in its chapter on Manchester Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Manchester originally included considerable ot jackson township, a small portion of Kelso and the greater part of York. In 1831 twelve sections were taken off and added to Kelso township and in 1841 York township was created, and it again lost territory; and with the creation of Jackson, in 1832, another loss of territory was made; but with all its losses Manchester is the largest township in the county, and it is claimed that it has more square miles than any township in the state. Since York township was organized there has been but little change in its boundaries. In 1896 a small strip was taken off and added to York, which is the only change that the township has under¬ gone since the townships were all created.

Passage source: History of Dearborn County Indiana, published 1915.

The history of Manchester township dates back to the year 1815, when Mark McCracken and his brother Robert, with their mother, located on the present site of the village of Manchester. In 1852 Robert McCracken stated over his own signature that he, in 1815, cut the road seven miles, drove the first wagon that ever was on the ridge, and put up the first cabin that ever was in that neighborhood. It is supposed that he cut the road from Cam¬ bridge, which was at that time the nearest station where there was a settlement He also stated that his nearest neighbor was at that time some four or five miles away and that they were all living this side Or nearer the river than where he was located. Two years later, in 1817, he sold out to Rev. Daniel Plummer, but his brother, Mark McCracken, retained his portion until his death, and erected the large country mansion owned for so many years by William H. Baker.

Passage source: History of Dearborn County Indiana, published 1915.

During the year 1815 David, George and Joseph Johnston, from Fred¬ erick county, Virginia, located on north Hogan, in the township. They had left Virginia in 1810, settling first in Butler county, Ohio, and in 1812 re¬ moving to Vincennes, then they came to Louisville, Kentucky, and in 1814 to where Aurora was later built, and a year later to Manchester township.

Passage source: History of Dearborn County Indiana, published 1915.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Manchester Township - it names this place 7 more 7 times.

Storms near this place

8 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Manchester in 8 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
December 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Manchester	$5,000	Scattered trees were reported down throughout Dearborn County due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Manchester	$4,000	Several trees and power lines were downed.
June 2008	Flash Flood	Manchester	$4,000	Five roads were flooded across the county.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Manchester	$3,000	A few trees were downed.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Manchester	$3,000	Trees were knocked down.
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Manchester	$3,000	Trees downed.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Manchester	$1,000	Two trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Manchester	$1,000	A large tree was reported to be down.

Every storm recorded in Dearborn 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Kyle	1.6 miles	17
Bonnell	2.3 miles	17
Wrights Corner	3.1 miles	17
Sparta	3.6 miles	10
Yorkville	4.3 miles	17
Kirschs Corner	4.5 miles	19
Moores Hill	4.8 miles	10
Weisburg	4.9 miles	9

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 Q6747228	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 438509. 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.