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Manitou, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Nebo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42436. The Survey maps it on the Madisonville West quadrangle. 173 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 407 feet above sea level.

Manitou within Hopkins County

Population over time

2 figures

Manitou fell from 181 to 173 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
2010181
2020173-8 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

27 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Manitou between 1998 and 2018, burning about 215 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 were 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/undetermined8
Debris and open burning6
Recreation and ceremony6
Arson/incendiarism2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1

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
6 April 2001Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined16 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 April 2000Naturalunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 2011Recreation and ceremony6.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTREE SWING
7 March 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2002Recreation and ceremony6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2000Railroad operations and maintenance75 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hopkins County

Storms near this place

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Manitou in 3 storm reports between 2003 and 2017: 2 hail, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2017FloodManitou-Water was over portions of a secondary road northwest of Manitou. Small streams were flooded in the Manitou area.
February 2012HailManitou-no account filed
May 2003HailManitou-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hopkins 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
Mitchell Hill2.6 miles14
Nebo3.5 miles13
Yarbro3.7 miles14
Colitown Junction3.7 miles13
Coiltown3.7 miles13
Pleasant View (historical)4.1 miles14
Pee Vee4.9 miles14
Oriole5.1 miles14

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 ManitouAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6750231The 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 497491. 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.