Manchester, South Dakota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Manchester Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57231. The Survey maps it on the Manchester quadrangle. It stands 1,608 feet above sea level.

Manchester within Kingsbury County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1899 USGS De Smet quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1971 USGS Manchester quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS De Smet quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

11 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Manchester between 1999 and 2017, burning about 98 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
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Debris and open burning	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Other causes	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
29 July 2002	Other causes	1.5 acres	Desmet Volunteer Fire Department	INCIDENT # 724
16 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	RANSCHAU
8 May 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Crooks Volunteer Fire Department	MILE MARKER 395
7 May 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Sturgis Volunteer Fire Department	DM&E #3
16 May 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Desmet Volunteer Fire Department	INCIDENT 694
10 May 1999	Debris and open burning	90 acres	Huron Volunteer Fire Dept.	CLYDE #20
4 April 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Iroquois Volunteer Fire Department	IROQUOIS
30 April 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Desmet Volunteer Fire Department	INCIDENT #711

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kingsbury County

Storms near this place

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Manchester in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2009: 4 hail, 2 tornado, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2003	Tornado (F2)	Manchester	$200,000	A tornado caused heavy damage to farm buildings including homes.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Manchester	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds damaged an empty silo and caused tree damage, including a few small trees blown down.
May 2009	Hail	Manchester	-	Large hail covered the ground.
June 2003	Tornado (F0)	Manchester	-	A brief tornado caused no reported damage.
July 2002	Hail	Manchester	-	no account filed
August 1999	Hail	Manchester	-	no account filed
July 1998	Hail	Manchester	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kingsbury 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Fairview (historical)	0.9 miles	11
Iroquois	6.9 miles	11
Esmond	7.9 miles	11
Bancroft	8.4 miles	11
De Smet	9.1 miles	11
Osceola	9.2 miles	11
Erwin	16.7 miles	9
Lake Preston	18.2 miles	9

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 Q926155	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 1265289. 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.

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.