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Manchester, Texas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Houston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77012. It lies near Fidelity Island. The Survey maps it on the Park Place quadrangle.

Manchester within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

42 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Manchester between 2019 and 2020, burning about 8 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/undetermined42

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
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE053
2 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceE025
2 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE041, E042
13 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE023
12 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE044, L044
1 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE025
8 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE025
8 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceE040

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Manchester: 22 producers, 3 plants, 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. 25 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Armco Steel CorpIronProducer
Galena Park MillBarium-BariteProducer
Houston Barite,PlantStrontium, Bentonite, Barium-BariteProducer
Houston Cement PlantLimestone, GeneralProducer
South Houston Salt DomeHaliteOccurrence1934
(Facility) Atlantic Richfield RefinerySulfurPlant
Charter International Oil CoSulfurProducer
Galena Park Gypsum PlantGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Ideal Cement Clay PitClayProducer
Lone Star Clay PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Harris County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Manchester in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2019: 1 lightning, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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
July 2012LightningManchester1 hurtA television station reports a man was injured by a lightning strike at the Port of Houston.
September 2019Flash FloodManchester-Flooding along Manchester Street at I610. Roads impassable.

Every storm recorded in Harris 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
Daly Place0.9 miles16
Harrisburg0.9 miles16
Clinton Park1.6 miles16
Mason Park Terrace1.6 miles16
Pecan Park1.6 miles16
Clinton View1.7 miles16
Gloverdale1.7 miles16
Allendale1.9 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1340888. 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.