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Manitowoc Rapids, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Manitowoc City. It lies in ZIP code area 54220. The Survey maps it on the Manitowoc quadrangle. 2,114 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 735 feet above sea level.

Manitowoc Rapids within Manitowoc County

On record in Manitowoc Rapids

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Manitowoc Rapids fell from 2,150 to 2,114 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
20102,150
20202,114-36 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

12 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Manitowoc Rapids between 2018 and 2020, burning about 2 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
14 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18545
25 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018033
2 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18360
5 May 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources29
13 May 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19336
11 April 2020Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2020011
29 March 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19239
24 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2018010

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Manitowoc County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Manitowoc Rapids: 2 producers, 2 unknowns, 2 past producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Calcium, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Housbach QuarryStonePast Producer
Manitowoc OperationStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Manitowoc Lime KilnCalciumPlant
Rockwell QuarryCalciumProducer
County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Fricke PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Scheutte PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Manitowoc County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Manitowoc Rapids in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2023: 1 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2023Thunderstorm WindManitowoc Rapids-Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees in Manitowoc. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
May 2017HailManitowoc Rapids-A thunderstorms produced penny size hail as it passed through the Manitowoc area.

Every storm recorded in Manitowoc 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
Kellners Corners1.9 miles8
Alverno2.3 miles9
Manitowoc2.4 miles9
University Village Heights2.5 miles9
Clover4.2 miles9
Branch4.5 miles9
Newtonburg4.6 miles8
Rockwood4.8 miles8

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 Manitowoc RapidsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1885203The 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 1568943. 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.