Manchester, Ohio

Manchester fell from 2,023 to 1,839 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. 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.

The same ground, surveyed 62 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1929 1991

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.

• 1929 USGS Springdale quadrangle1:48000
• 1929 USGS Springdale quadrangle1:62500
• 1935 USGS Springdale quadrangle1:62500
• 1952 USGS Manchester Islands quadrangle1:24000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Manchester Islands quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Manchester Islands quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Manchester Islands quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Manchester Islands quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
• 1991 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000

An account from the chapter on Manchester township, The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

Caldwell's Illustrated Historical Atlas of Adams County, Ohio. 1797-1880, published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Manchester Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Manchester between 1997 and 2020, burning about 348 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 were 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Wrightsville
• Catbird
• Bentonville
• Paradise Hills
• Beasley Fork
• Bradysville

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 78 specimens collected within 10 miles of Manchester between 1927 and 1975: 58 Animalia, 18 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A JOHN, A. Cronquist, ANSEL JOHN and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Alosa chrysochloris (Rafinesque, 1820)	1927	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)	Ohio Brush Creek, within Adams Co, Adams County, township n/a
	Ambystoma maculatum (Shaw, 1802)	1929	Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Hine, J. S. (James Stewart)	Wooded swamp, Monroe Twp, Adams Co., Ohio
	Campylium chrysophyllum (Brid.) Lange	1929	s.c.	below Buzzard's Roost
	Drummondia prorepens (Hedw.) E.Britton	1929	s.c.	Buzzard's Roost
	Plethodon glutinosus (Green, 1818)	1929	Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) & Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)	1 mi. NE Wrightsville, Monroe Twp., Adams Co., Ohio
	Pylaisiella intricata (Hedw.) Grout	1929	Fulford, Margaret Hannah	below Buzzard's Roost Rock
	Pylaisiella selwynii (Kindb.) H.A.Crum, Steere & L.E.Anderson	1929	Fulford, Margaret Hannah	below Buzzard's Roost
	Weissia controversa Hedw.	1929	Fulford, Margaret Hannah	near Buzzard's Roost
	Plethodon cinereus (Green, 1818)	1930	Dury, R. (Ralph)	Liberty Twp., Adams Co., Ohio
	Notropis blennius (Girard, 1856)	1938	Rhoades, R. (Randall)	Ohio River, Manchester Island, ~1.8 mi E of Manchester, Tollesboro CCD
	Schilbeodes miurus (Jordan, 1877)	1938	Rhoades, R. (Randall)	Ohio Brush Creek, within Adams Co, Adams County, township n/a
	Orconectes juvenilis (Hagen, 1870)	1939	R. Rhoades	Ohio River, 3 mi. below Aberdeen, Huntingon Township

All 78 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Manchester: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Calcium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Adams County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Manchester in 32 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 24 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 flood. The reports record 2 deaths. 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.

Every storm recorded in Adams County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061465. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.