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Manton, Michigan

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Manton City. It lies in ZIP code area 49663. The Survey maps it on the Manton quadrangle. 1,258 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,132 feet above sea level.

Manton within Wexford County

Population over time

2 figures

Manton fell from 1,287 to 1,258 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
20101,287
20201,258-29 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

95 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Manton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 220 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 11 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
Debris and open burning34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Arson/incendiarism11
Recreation and ceremony9
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1

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
16 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWEXFORD 07
15 September 2018Natural4.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWEXFORD 06
14 September 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWEXFORD 07
13 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWEXFORD 05 - GILMORE FIRE
6 August 2004Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 August 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreMichigan Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 August 2018Debris and open burning10 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWEXFORD 01
21 August 2004Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresHuron-Manistee National ForestSTODDARD FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wexford County

Storms near this place

12 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Manton in 12 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 6 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2006Thunderstorm WindManton$20,000A falling tree destroyed the office of the Lake Billings Campground.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindManton$6,000Numerous trees downed west through northwest of Manton.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindManton$3,000Trees and large limbs were downed.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindManton$500Several large tree limbs were downed.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindManton-Central dispatch reported significant power outages in the vicinity of Manton.
April 2008Thunderstorm WindManton-A spotter estimated a 60 mph wind gust.
May 2004HailManton-An isolated severe thunderstorm produced nickel sized hail near Chase Creek Camp.
April 2020HailManton-no account filed
July 2012HailManton-no account filed
May 2011HailManton-no account filed
June 2008HailManton-no account filed
July 1997HailManton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wexford 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
Gilbert2.6 miles12
Missaukee Junction7.1 miles12
Haring7.8 miles12
Meauwataka8.5 miles12
Baxter9.3 miles12
Cadillac11.0 miles12
Millersville12.6 miles12
Boon13.6 miles12

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 MantonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2151492The 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 1620691. 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.