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Manchester, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Manchester City. It lies in ZIP code area 48158. The Survey maps it on the Manchester quadrangle. 2,037 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 899 feet above sea level.

Manchester within Washtenaw County

On record in Manchester

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Manchester fell from 2,091 to 2,037 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
20102,091
20202,037-54 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Manchester between 1996 and 2019, burning about 105 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined3
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning1

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
12 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMANCHESTER TOWNSHIP FD 0000218 - 2018
14 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMANCHESTER TOWNSHIP FD 0000187 - 2019
22 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMANCHESTER TOWNSHIP FD 0000133 - 2018
20 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMANCHESTER TOWNSHIP FD 0000129 - 2018
2 April 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMANCHESTER TOWNSHIP FD 0000126 - 2019
19 April 2018Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMANCHESTER TOWNSHIP FD 0000128 - 2018
11 April 1996Debris and open burning98 acresMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 December 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesMANCHESTER TOWNSHIP FD 0000481 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washtenaw County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Manchester: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Washtenaw County Road Comm. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Washtenaw County

Storms near this place

34 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Manchester in 34 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 25 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 lightning, 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
September 2008FloodManchester$200,000no account filed
December 1998Thunderstorm WindManchester$10,000no account filed
March 1998Thunderstorm WindManchester$10,000no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindManchester$5,000Wires reported down.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindManchester$2,000A 14 inch diameter tree was blown over. Power lines were also reported down, with a power pole snapped.
July 2001LightningManchester$2,000Lightning struck a house. Only minor damage was reported.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindManchester$2,000no account filed
July 2023Thunderstorm WindManchester-Numerous trees reported blown down with damage to a barn.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindManchester-Trees and power lines observed down.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindManchester-Power lines reported down over the roadway.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindManchester-A 24 inch diameter tree was reported down.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindManchester-A tree was blown down.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindManchester-Emergency Manager reported 2 twelve inch limbs blown down.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindManchester-Trees were reported blown down.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindManchester-Trees and power lines were reported blown down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindManchester-Local law enforcement reported large tree limbs and wires down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindManchester-Spotters reported a tree blown down on M-52.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindManchester-Trained spotters reported a two and half foot tree blown down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindManchester-A trained spotter reported trees and wires down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindManchester-The emergency manager reported 4 two foot trees blown down.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindManchester-Emergency management reported 9 inch diameter tree limbs blown down.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindManchester-Emergency management reported 7 inch diameter tree limbs blown down.
May 2001HailManchester-Thunderstorms developed just north of a warm front that was moving northeast into far southern Michigan. One storm in Washtenaw County briefly reached severe levels. The most notable part of the storms was the heavy rain, with estimates of 5 to 7 inches of rain in a few hours in parts of Washtenaw, Lenawee, and Monroe Counties. The heavy rain produced a lot of nuisance standing water, but no flash flooding. However, some river flooding did result (see following).
June 1994Thunderstorm WindManchester-Spotters reported large trees blown down by 60 mph wind gusts.
July 2016HailManchester-no account filed
July 2014HailManchester-no account filed
May 2012HailManchester-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindManchester-no account filed
April 2001HailManchester-no account filed
July 2001HailManchester-no account filed
April 2000HailManchester-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindManchester-no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindManchester-no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindManchester-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washtenaw 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
Rowes Corner2.9 miles12
Sharon Hollow3.5 miles12
River Raisin3.8 miles15
Rogers Corner7.0 miles15
Bridgewater7.2 miles15
Jerusalem9.1 miles19
Benton9.4 miles16
Sylvan Center9.6 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 ManchesterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2326485The 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 631375. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, 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.