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Manawa, Wisconsin

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Manawa City. It lies in ZIP code area 54949. The Survey maps it on the Manawa quadrangle. 1,441 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 817 feet above sea level.

Manawa within Waupaca County

Population over time

2 figures

Manawa grew from 1,371 to 1,441 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
20101,371
20201,441+70 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

In the county-history sources

107 words on this township

History of Waupaca County, Wisconsin, published 1890 names this settlement in its chapter on Manawa City. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The Village of Manawa is situated near the center of the tow^n, and near the center of the County, on the Little Wolf River. It has 5 general stores, 1 hardware store, 1 drug store, 1 saw mill, 1 stave factory, 1 millinery store, 2 blacksmith shops, 1 meat market, 1 livery stable, 2 harness shops, 2 furniture stores, 4 churches, and 1 high school.

Passage source: History of Waupaca County, Wisconsin, published 1890.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Manawa City.

Fires near this place

91 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Manawa between 1992 and 2020, burning about 94 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 burning43
Equipment and vehicle use15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking5
Fireworks4
Other causes3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
10 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
3 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesREPEAT FIRE
28 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesHWY O FIRE
21 August 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 August 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
8 July 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 July 2009Fireworksunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesFOUR QUARTER CORNERS
30 July 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Waupaca 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 Manawa: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Thiel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Waupaca County

Storms near this place

7 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Manawa in 7 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2024Flash FloodManawa$260,000Rainfall amounts of 4 to 6 inches, combined with the failure of the Manawa Dam, caused flooding in Manawa during the late morning and early afternoon.
May 2025HailManawa-Quarter size hail fell in Manawa. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
June 2025HailManawa-Nickel size hail fell near Manawa. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
June 2022Tornado (EF1)Manawa-A tornado formed at 5:52 pm CDT near Manawa in central Waupaca County and continued northeast before dissipating at 5:56 pm CDT near Symco. Total path length is estimated to be 3.1 miles long, with a width of 120 yards. Peak wind estimated to be around 90 mph.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindManawa-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in Manawa.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindManawa-no account filed
September 1999Thunderstorm WindManawa-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Waupaca 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
Little Wolf (historical)3.1 miles7
Symco3.5 miles8
Royalton4.7 miles7
Baldwins Mill5.7 miles7
Ogdensburg6.0 miles8
Carmel6.6 miles7
Ostrander6.6 miles7
Nowell (historical)6.7 miles7

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 ManawaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1569741The 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 1568931. 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.