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Manley, Nebraska

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Center precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68403. The Survey maps it on the Manley quadrangle. 167 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,280 feet above sea level.

Manley within Cass County

On record in Manley

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Manley fell from 178 to 167 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
2010178
2020167-11 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Manley between 2006 and 2018, burning about 3 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
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Debris and open burning1
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
10 August 2006Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
11 April 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
3 March 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
1 March 2007Fireworksunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Manley: 4 producers, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Texasgulf Inc.Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Weeping W Mine & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hopper Bros. Weeping Water QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Weeping Water Mine & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Weeping Water Mine & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

19 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Manley in 19 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 14 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2025HailManley-Public report of hail estimated up to 1 in diameter. Report received via mPING.
April 2025HailManley-Public report of hail estimated up to 1 in diameter. Report received via mPING.
April 2025HailManley-Public report of hail estimated up to 1.25 in diameter. Report received via mPING.
April 2025HailManley-Trained spotter report of hail measured up to 2.00 in diameter. Delayed report with the time estimated from radar.
April 2025Tornado (EF0)Manley-At approximately 6:36 PM CST on Thursday April 17, a intermittent tornado developed southwest of Manley, NE based on video evidence. Intermittent tornado circulation passed through mainly open fields, but also through some areas of trees with little to no damage, supporting an EF-1 rating. The maximum wind speed during this track was estimated at 50 mph, 0 fatalities and 0 injuries.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindManley-A thunderstorm wind gust was estimated at 60 mph by an off duty NWS employee south of Louisville.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindManley-Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph tipped a combine over, snapped a few power poles, damaged a horse barn and knocked down large tree limbs in town.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindManley-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 mph downed trees near 156th Street between Highway 1 and Church Street.
June 2018HailManley-no account filed
June 2016HailManley-no account filed
June 2014HailManley-no account filed
October 2013HailManley-no account filed
May 2013HailManley-no account filed
July 2013HailManley-no account filed
July 2013HailManley-no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindManley-no account filed
August 2002HailManley-no account filed
June 1998HailManley-no account filed
June 1994HailManley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cass 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
Weeping Water3.7 miles13
Wabash5.2 miles14
Louisville5.4 miles13
Murdock6.1 miles14
South Bend7.0 miles17
Elmwood8.7 miles13
Cedar Creek8.8 miles18
Avoca8.9 miles13

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 ManleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2172054The 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 831022. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.