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Manvel, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Alvin-Pearland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77578. The Survey maps it on the Manvel quadrangle. 9,992 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 52 feet above sea level.

Manvel within Brazoria County

Population over time

2 figures

Manvel grew from 5,179 to 9,992 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, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. 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.

YearPeople Change
20105,179
20209,992+4,813 (+93%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

95 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Manvel between 2008 and 2014, burning about 305 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 4 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.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use8
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2013Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceILLEGAL BURN
9 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
6 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
13 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
13 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
10 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brazoria County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Manvel: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Halite. 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
Manvell Salt DomeHaliteOccurrence1929

Every working recorded in Brazoria County

Storms near this place

25 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Manvel in 25 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 9 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 2 flash flood. The reports record 3 injuries. 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
October 2015Tornado (EF1)Manvel3 hurt, $50,000The EF-1 tornado tracked along Wink Road between Alvin and Manvel. The tornado injured three people as it destroyed one mobile home and damaged several other mobile homes. The estimated peak wind was 100 mph.
July 1997Tornado (F0)Manvel$50,000Trailer home destroyed and a roof was blown off a house in Manvel. Many trees blown down between CR 48-CR 58-HWY 6.
June 2001Tornado (F0)Manvel$40,000A tornado touched down near Highway 6 and County Road 99, downing trees and damaging one home.
February 1998Thunderstorm WindManvel$30,000Antique shop at HWY 6 & CR 99 sustained major wind damage (80% totalled).
April 2015Thunderstorm WindManvel$25,000Thunderstorm winds downed tree limbs and power lines.
April 1997Tornado (F0)Manvel$25,000no account filed
April 2014LightningManvel$15,000A lightning strike set fire to a structure in Manvel.
October 2003Flash FloodManvel$15,000Flooding over County Road 190, west of Highway 146, forced its closure. Subdivision along Highway 6 in Manvel experienced flooding.
May 2000HailManvel$15,000no account filed
November 2000Thunderstorm WindManvel$10,000Tree down and blocking CR 1188.
April 2001HailManvel$10,000no account filed
March 2012Thunderstorm WindManvel$8,000A severe thunderstorm caused some roof damage and blew down a fence near the South Fork subdivision around the Pearland area.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindManvel$5,000Severe thunderstorm winds blew over a metal carport.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindManvel$5,000Trees blown down blocking CR 190.
January 1997Thunderstorm WindManvel$5,000no account filed
January 1997HailManvel$5,000no account filed
April 1997Flash FloodManvel$5,000no account filed
November 1995HailManvel$5,000no account filed
September 2001HailManvel$2,000Dime size hail at State Highway 288 and County Road 58.
April 2014LightningManvel$1,000A lightning strike caused a grass fire on a golf course.
January 2021Thunderstorm WindManvel-Strong wind gusts caused tree damage in Brazoria County, resulting in trees blocking roads.
May 2018HailManvel-Quarter sized hail was observed.
May 2018HailManvel-Penny sized hail was observed.
May 2015HailManvel-Dime size hail was reported between Manvel and Pearland.
March 2013HailManvel-The penny size hail was reported in the town of Manvel.

Every storm recorded in Brazoria 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
Iowa Colony3.3 miles11
Sedgewood4.7 miles13
Ravenwood Estates5.2 miles13
Fairway Village5.2 miles13
Southwyck5.2 miles13
West Lea5.4 miles13
Lakepointe5.5 miles13
Meadowview6.0 miles13

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 ManvelAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981784The 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 1340905. 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.