Manchester, Oklahoma
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Wakita census division. It lies in ZIP code area 73758. The Survey maps it on the Manchester quadrangle. 90 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,283 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresManchester fell from 104 to 90 between 2000 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 104 | |
| 2010 | 103 | -1 (-1%) |
| 2020 | 90 | -13 (-13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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.
- 1955 USGS Woodward quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Woodward quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1969 USGS Manchester quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Alva quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Alva quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Manchester between 2000 and 2018, burning about 21 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/undetermined | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 November 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Southern Plains Regional Office | BUFFALO |
| 15 January 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 415 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Manchester: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
24 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Manchester in 24 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 13 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manchester | $40,000 | A barn was damaged and twenty-two power poles were knocked down across state highway 132, 1.5 miles south of Manchester. Close to 3000 people were without power for a several hours. Highway 132 was also closed due to the damage. Monetary damages were estimated. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manchester | $10 | Two to three inch diameter tree limbs were downed. |
| April 2012 | Tornado (EF0) | Manchester | - | A large and violently rotating tornado crossed from Alfalfa County through far northwest Grant County briefly before entering Harper County, Kansas (see NWS Wichita report for southeast Kansas for the continuation of this tornado). The tornado produced no known damage in Grant County, except to trees. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manchester | - | No damage occurred as a result of the wind gust. |
| September 2008 | Flood | Manchester | - | The county sheriff reported that numerous roads remained closed due to overnight and early morning heavy rainfall. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Manchester | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Manchester | - | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manchester | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Manchester | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manchester | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manchester | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Manchester | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Manchester | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Manchester | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Manchester | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Manchester | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Manchester | - | no account filed |
| September 1999 | Hail | Manchester | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Manchester | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Manchester | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Manchester | - | no account filed |
| August 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manchester | - | no account filed |
| August 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Manchester | - | no account filed |
| September 1993 | Hail | 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.
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 Manchester | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2187247 | The 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 1095105. 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.




