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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.

Manchester within Grant County

Population over time

3 figures

Manchester 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.

YearPeople Change
2000104
2010103-1 (-1%)
202090-13 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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 2000

Regional 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/undetermined1
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
30 November 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresSouthern Plains Regional OfficeBUFFALO
15 January 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKansas Forest Service415

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Grant County

Storms near this place

24 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2008Thunderstorm WindManchester$40,000A 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 2002Thunderstorm WindManchester$10Two to three inch diameter tree limbs were downed.
April 2012Tornado (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 2011Thunderstorm WindManchester-No damage occurred as a result of the wind gust.
September 2008FloodManchester-The county sheriff reported that numerous roads remained closed due to overnight and early morning heavy rainfall.
May 2022HailManchester-no account filed
May 2010HailManchester-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindManchester-no account filed
May 2005HailManchester-no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindManchester-no account filed
June 2004Thunderstorm WindManchester-no account filed
April 2003HailManchester-no account filed
April 2003HailManchester-no account filed
May 2002HailManchester-no account filed
May 2002HailManchester-no account filed
June 2001HailManchester-no account filed
July 2000HailManchester-no account filed
September 1999HailManchester-no account filed
May 1998Tornado (F0)Manchester-no account filed
June 1998HailManchester-no account filed
June 1998HailManchester-no account filed
August 1994Thunderstorm WindManchester-no account filed
August 1994Thunderstorm WindManchester-no account filed
September 1993HailManchester-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
Gibbon4.6 miles10
Wakita9.8 miles10
Sand Creek10.6 miles8
Gilbert14.9 miles11
Clyde15.3 miles10
Hawley16.6 miles8
Medford20.6 miles11
Renfrow20.8 miles10

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 ManchesterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2187247The 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.