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.
Population over time
2 figuresManitou 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 181 | |
| 2020 | 173 | -8 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 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.
- 1907 USGS Earlington quadrangle1:48000
- 1909 USGS Earlington quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Earlington quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Madisonville West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Madisonville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
27 since 1998Regional 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/undetermined | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 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 April 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 5 April 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 20 April 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 20 April 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 2 April 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | 6.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | TREE SWING |
| 7 March 2002 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 7 March 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 6.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 7 March 2000 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 75 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2003Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2017 | Flood | Manitou | - | Water was over portions of a secondary road northwest of Manitou. Small streams were flooded in the Manitou area. |
| February 2012 | Hail | Manitou | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Manitou | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mitchell Hill | 2.6 miles | 14 | |
| Nebo | 3.5 miles | 13 | |
| Yarbro | 3.7 miles | 14 | |
| Colitown Junction | 3.7 miles | 13 | |
| Coiltown | 3.7 miles | 13 | |
| Pleasant View (historical) | 4.1 miles | 14 | |
| Pee Vee | 4.9 miles | 14 | |
| Oriole | 5.1 miles | 14 |
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 Manitou | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6750231 | 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 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.







