West Manchester, Ohio

West Manchester fell from 474 to 415 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 33 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1953 1986

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.

• 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
• 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS New Madison quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS New Madison quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS New Madison quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Dayton quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Dayton quadrangle1:100000

History of Preble County Ohio: Her People, Industries and Institutions, published 1915 names this settlement in its chapter on Monroe Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 371 specimens collected within 10 miles of West Manchester between 1876 and 1974: 367 Animalia, 3 Plantae, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Cole, G., F. White, Klots, A.B. 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
	Hedwigia ciliata (Hedw.) P.Beauv.	1876	not recorded	New Paris
	Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae Schwein.	1928	Mendenhall E. W.	New Paris
	Macrochilo absorptalis Walker, 1859	1929	Klots, A.B.	Lewisburg
	Phalaenostola eumelusalis Walker, 1859	1929	Klots, A.B.	Lewisburg
	Phalaenostola larentioides Grote, 1873	1929	Klots, A.B.	Lewisburg
	Campostoma anomalum anomalum	1930	MB Trautman	Whitewater River, at New Paris, Jefferson Twp
	Catostomus commersonnii commersonnii (Lacepède, 1803)	1930	MB Trautman	Whitewater River, at New Paris, Jefferson Twp
	Chrosomus erythrogaster (Rafinesque, 1820)	1930	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Foster, R. (Robert)	East Fork Whitewater River, at New Paris, ~0.4 mi NW of New Paris, Jefferson township
	Cottus bairdii Girard, 1850	1930	MB Trautman	Whitewater River, at New Paris, Jefferson Twp
	Etheostoma blennioides Rafinesque, 1819	1930	MB Trautman	Whitewater River, at New Paris, Jefferson Twp
	Etheostoma caeruleum Storer, 1845	1930	MB Trautman	Whitewater River, at New Paris, Jefferson Twp
	Etheostoma nigrum Rafinesque, 1820	1930	MB Trautman	Whitewater River, at New Paris, Jefferson Twp

All 371 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Manchester in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 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.

Every storm recorded in Preble 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 1061731. 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.

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.