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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.

Manchester within Cascade County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

10 since 2017

Regional 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
Fireworks4
Smoking2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning2

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
13 August 2017Smoking1.0 acresCentral Land OfficeVAUGHN
8 July 2020Fireworksunder an acreCascade CountyLAUBACH FIRE
4 July 2017Fireworks1.0 acresCentral Land OfficeVAUGHN
16 July 2020Smokingunder an acreCascade CountySLUICE BOX
16 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Land OfficeVAUGHN
15 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCentral Land OfficeVAUGHN
1 July 2017Fireworks1.0 acresCentral Land OfficeVAUGHN
29 June 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreCascade CountyNEEL CREEK FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cascade County

Storms near this place

9 since 2003

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2003Thunderstorm WindManchester$5,000no account filed
July 2022Funnel CloudManchester-Several reports, both public and Vaughn volunteer fire department, of funnel clouds between Vaughn and Sun Prairie.
July 2022HailManchester-NWS Employee reported 2 inch hail 3 miles NE of Sun Prairie.
May 2020HailManchester-Public reports 1 inch diameter hail via mping.
July 2019HailManchester-Trained spotter reported 1 inch sized hail at 1 W Sun Prairie.
June 2018Flash FloodManchester-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 2014HailManchester-Hail of 0.88 inches (nickel sized) was reported.
May 2014HailManchester-Hail measuring 1.75 inches was reported in Sun Prairie, MT.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindManchester-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cascade 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
Sun Prairie1.1 miles15
Vaughn4.6 miles14
Emerson Junction5.1 miles16
Ulm8.0 miles16
Johnstown (historical)8.1 miles16
Countryside Village8.8 miles16
Flood (historical)9.0 miles14
Great Falls9.0 miles16

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.