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Manila, Missouri

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65332. It stands on South Flat Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ionia quadrangle.

Manila within Pettis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

22 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Manila between 1992 and 2020, burning about 202 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
24 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation230728-04281-09242020-1407
8 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178044-08048-08082018-1658
4 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.3 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177867-00807-08042018-1355
5 April 1993Debris and open burning5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
19 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177169-00807-04192018-2038
13 April 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation178993-00807-04132019-1242
3 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178039-08048-03032018-1543
23 March 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178408-08048-03232019-1104

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pettis County

Storms near this place

10 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Manila in 10 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 8 hail, 1 tornado, 1 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
April 1993HailManila$5,000Spotters reported golf ball-size hail in Manila. The Sedalia Police Department reported 0.75-inch-diameter hail also.
April 2024HailManila-Quarter sized hail reported just north of Ionia, just north of the Pettis/Benton County line.
May 2024HailManila-Quarter sized hail was reported near the intersection of Ionia Rd and Route ZZ.
May 2024HailManila-Quarter sized hail was reported on the north side of Ionia.
May 2024HailManila-Tennis ball sized hail was reported just northeast of Ionia.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindManila-Law enforcement relayed a public report of several 18 to 24 inch diameter trees being blown down.
March 2006Tornado (F1)Manila-Tornado crossed into Pettis county from Benton county at 1557 CST. Tornado was over rural areas with no significant damage noted. The tornado dissipated at 1605 CST 1 mile west of Manila.
September 2010HailManila-no account filed
April 2003HailManila-no account filed
April 2003HailManila-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pettis 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
Spring Fork5.5 miles18
Green Ridge6.1 miles19
Bryson7.8 miles19
Bahner11.1 miles18
Sedalia12.0 miles22
Dresden13.8 miles23
Georgetown15.2 miles18
Smithton15.7 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 741039. 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.