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Manvel, North Dakota

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Manvel City. It lies in ZIP code area 58256. The Survey maps it on the Manvel quadrangle. 377 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 820 feet above sea level.

Manvel within Grand Forks County

Population over time

2 figures

Manvel grew from 360 to 377 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
2010360
2020377+17 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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

2 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Manvel in 2020, burning about 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
4 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceFIRE GRASS/BRUSH
3 November 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceFIRE CONTROLLED BURN

Every fire recorded in Grand Forks County

Storms near this place

29 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Manvel in 29 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 15 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 flash 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
April 2002WildfireManvel$250,000no account filed
July 2020Flash FloodManvel$50,000Streets and rural roads were flooded in and around Manvel. Fields, farmstead and homestead access roads were flooded in northern Ferry and Turtle River townships. The water lapped at garage doors and house foundations at some locations.
September 2017Thunderstorm WindManvel$10,000A large piece of metal sheet roofing from a neighbor's machine shed was torn off and hit the house, causing minor damage. An enclosed trailer was moved about ten feet and two trees were uprooted.
March 2010Flash FloodManvel$5,000Water rose rapidly near Manvel due to a downstream ice jam and backwater on the Turtle River. Water rose over three feet and threatened homes nearest the river, with some homes requiring emergency sandbag protection. Breakout flows from the river also flooded the golf course and overtopped highway 33 to the west of town.
July 2025HailManvel-Received a public report of hail up to 1.75 inches in diameter.
July 2025HailManvel-A trained spotter called in a report of 1 inch hail.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindManvel-Peak wind was measured at a personal weather station.
July 2022HailManvel-Hail and very strong winds were reported. Numerous 3 to 5 inch tree branches were broken down in the area.
September 2021HailManvel-A trained spotter reported very heavy rain, along with nickel to quarter-sized hail.
July 2020Heavy RainManvel-Street flooding occurred after 3.50 inches of rain fell.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindManvel-Several large branches were blown down.
June 2020HailManvel-Dime to quarter sized hail fell with 60 mph wind gusts.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindManvel-A tree was uprooted along Interstate 29, near mile marker 149.
July 2017Tornado (EF0)Manvel-This tornado was observed and reported by spotters located near Manvel and along highway 81 and county road 1, about 6 miles northwest of Manvel. The tornado crossed Interstate 29 just south of exit 157. The tornado broke down large tree branches at multiple shelterbelts and groves along its path. Peak winds were estimated at 75 mph.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindManvel-A sheet metal structure was demolished.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindManvel-Large tree branches were blown down in a shelterbelt.
June 2009Tornado (EF0)Manvel-A tornado briefly touched down in an open field.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindManvel-A 14 inch diameter elm tree was snapped off near ground level by the strong wind. The tree was located near the west edge of the Manvel golf course.
June 2020HailManvel-no account filed
June 2020HailManvel-no account filed
July 2017HailManvel-no account filed
June 2008HailManvel-no account filed
August 2006HailManvel-no account filed
May 2004HailManvel-no account filed
July 2001HailManvel-no account filed
July 1999HailManvel-no account filed
July 1999HailManvel-no account filed
June 1996HailManvel-no account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindManvel-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grand Forks 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
Kelly7.7 miles13
North Grand Forks8.2 miles16
Mekinock10.9 miles9
Powell10.9 miles13
Calspur11.0 miles16
Ojata (historical)12.1 miles16
Grand Forks13.0 miles16
Emerado14.8 miles16

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 ManvelAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1879980The 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 1030090. 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.