Manchester, Montana
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1976. It stands in the Great Falls North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59404. The Survey maps it on the Manchester quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 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.
- 1886 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1949 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:62500
- 1951 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Great Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Manchester quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1976 USGS Great Falls North quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
10 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Manchester between 2017 and 2020, burning about 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Fireworks | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 August 2017 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Central Land Office | VAUGHN |
| 8 July 2020 | Fireworks | under an acre | Cascade County | LAUBACH FIRE |
| 4 July 2017 | Fireworks | 1.0 acres | Central Land Office | VAUGHN |
| 16 July 2020 | Smoking | under an acre | Cascade County | SLUICE BOX |
| 16 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Central Land Office | VAUGHN |
| 15 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Central Land Office | VAUGHN |
| 1 July 2017 | Fireworks | 1.0 acres | Central Land Office | VAUGHN |
| 29 June 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Cascade County | NEEL CREEK FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Manchester in 9 storm reports between 2003 and 2022: 5 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manchester | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2022 | Funnel Cloud | Manchester | - | Several reports, both public and Vaughn volunteer fire department, of funnel clouds between Vaughn and Sun Prairie. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Manchester | - | NWS Employee reported 2 inch hail 3 miles NE of Sun Prairie. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Manchester | - | Public reports 1 inch diameter hail via mping. |
| July 2019 | Hail | Manchester | - | Trained spotter reported 1 inch sized hail at 1 W Sun Prairie. |
| June 2018 | Flash Flood | Manchester | - | Home weather station 8.5-miles NNW of Great Falls reported 4.64-inches of rain in four-hours ending at 6:54 PM MDT, with 3.70-inches of rain falling in only one-hour between 2:58 and 3:58 PM MDT. NWS employee observed flash flooding and severe erosion in the same area. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Manchester | - | Hail of 0.88 inches (nickel sized) was reported. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Manchester | - | Hail measuring 1.75 inches was reported in Sun Prairie, MT. |
| July 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manchester | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun Prairie | 1.1 miles | 15 | |
| Vaughn | 4.6 miles | 14 | |
| Emerson Junction | 5.1 miles | 16 | |
| Ulm | 8.0 miles | 16 | |
| Johnstown (historical) | 8.1 miles | 16 | |
| Countryside Village | 8.8 miles | 16 | |
| Flood (historical) | 9.0 miles | 14 | |
| Great Falls | 9.0 miles | 16 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 773856. 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.






