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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Manchester, Ohio

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1994. It stands in New Franklin City. It lies in ZIP code area 44216. The Survey maps it on the Canal Fulton quadrangle.

Manchester within Summit County

Then and now

1901 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 93 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Manchester, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Manchester, surveyed 1901

Topographic sheets covering this place

18 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.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 229 shown

Museums hold 229 specimens collected within 10 miles of Manchester between 1887 and 1972: 200 Animalia, 25 Plantae, 3 Fungi, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. W. Cusick, Armbruster, D. C. (Daniel C.), B.A. Wilson 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Dichomyces furciferus Thaxt.Dichomyces furciferus Thaxt.1936L.J. Lipousky
Specimen of Dimorphomyces muticus Thaxt.Dimorphomyces muticus Thaxt.1936L.J. Lipoviky
A photograph of the species Geum aleppicum, not of this specimenGeum aleppicum Jacq.1887ElliottGreensburg
A photograph of the species Geum canadense, not of this specimenGeum canadense Jacq.1887ElliottGreensburg
A photograph of the species Agrimonia gryposepala, not of this specimenAgrimonia gryposepala Wallr.1889ElliottGreensburg
A photograph of the species Platanthera flava, not of this specimenPlatanthera flava var. herbiola (R.Br.) Luer1889K. O. FoltzCopley Swamp, near Akron
A photograph of the species Colinus virginianus, not of this specimenColinus virginianus virginianus (Linnaeus, 1758)1891Collector(s): E. G. WhiteBarberton
A photograph of the species Aralia racemosa, not of this specimenAralia racemosa L.1899Selby, A.D.Rogue's Hollow, Chippewa Township
A photograph of the species Enallagma traviatum, not of this specimenEnallagma traviatum Selys, 18761900unknownAkron, Summit Lake
A photograph of the species Arenaria serpyllifolia, not of this specimenArenaria serpyllifolia L.1909Vickers, E.W.Near Turkey-Foot Lake
A photograph of the species Eragrostis hypnoides, not of this specimenEragrostis hypnoides (Lam.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.1909Vickers, E.W.Turkey-foot Lake
A photograph of the species Galba obrussa, not of this specimenGalba obrussa (Say, 1825)1910not recordedChippewa Creek, Warwick, old channel, North America

All 229 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

9 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Manchester: 4 producers, 3 past producers, 2 plants. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Coal. 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
Carbon Limestone Company QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, CoalProducer
Barberton Sand Plant & QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Barberton Sand QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
Barberton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Greensburg PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Portage Lakes Pit Number 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Portage Lakes Pit Number 2 & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Twin Lakes Sand, Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Twinlakes PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Summit County

Storms nearby

4 since 1997

The National Weather Service names Manchester in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 1997Thunderstorm WindManchester$20,000Several trailers were damaged at a trailer park.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindManchester$12,000Several trees were reported down.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindManchester$5,000There was video from social media showing damaging video with trees blown down and large tree branches snapped off near New Franklin. There was also a fence smashed by large trees.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindManchester-Tree downed along Manchester Road, just south of Fisherman's Central, in Portage Lakes area.

Every storm recorded in Summit 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
New Franklin1.5 miles18
Comet2.5 miles18
Deer Valley Estates2.6 miles18
Withering Heights2.8 miles18
Hearthstone Estates2.8 miles18
Tamarack Lake Estates2.8 miles18
Pine Knoll Estates3.0 miles18
Nimisila Sunset Heights3.1 miles18

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.

Wikidata item Q35723921The 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 1061466. 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.

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.