Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:
- That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
- We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
- On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.
By learning about Manning (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.
As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Manning. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.
Neighboring Counties ...
When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.
For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.
So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived: their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the west contained birth and death records; the county to the south contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.
If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.
Manning is located in Carroll County.
To see how the shape of Iowa's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Carroll County: Audubon, Calhoun, Crawford, Greene, Guthrie, Sac & Shelby.
Below are the counties that are near Manning. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Manning:
- Carroll County (The home county of Manning)
- The following are listed by their distance from Manning, with the one closest to Manning listed first.
- Templeton
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Halbur
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Halbur is located in Carroll County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halbur
- Population from the 2020 Census: 252 people
- Roselle
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Roselle is located in Carroll County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roselle
- Dedham
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Arcadia
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Arcadia is located in Carroll County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arcadia
- Population from the 2020 Census: 531 people
- Willey
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Willey is located in Carroll County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willey
- Population from the 2020 Census: 97 people
- Carroll
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Carroll Community Estates
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Breda
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Breda is located in Carroll County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Breda
- Population from the 2020 Census: 471 people
- Coon Rapids
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Glidden
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Lidderdale
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Lidderdale is located in Carroll County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lidderdale
- Population from the 2020 Census: 167 people
- Audubon County
- The following are listed by their distance from Manning, with the one closest to Manning listed first.
- Gray
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Fiscus
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Fiscus is located in Audubon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fiscus
- Ross
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Ross is located in Audubon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ross
- Audubon
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Hamlin
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Hamlin is located in Audubon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hamlin
- Kimballton
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Exira
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Brayton
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Calhoun County
- The following are listed by their distance from Manning, with the one closest to Manning listed first.
- Lake City
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Yetter
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Yetter is located in Calhoun County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yetter
- Population from the 2020 Census: 31 people
- Crawford County
- The following are listed by their distance from Manning, with the one closest to Manning listed first.
- Aspinwall
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Aspinwall is located in Crawford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aspinwall
- Population from the 2020 Census: 40 people
- Manilla
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Westside
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Astor
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Astor is located in Crawford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Astor
- Vail
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Denison
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Buck Grove
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Buck Grove is located in Crawford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buck Grove
- Population from the 2020 Census: 43 people
- Sunset Village
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Sunset Village is located in Crawford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunset Village
- Deloit
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Deloit is located in Crawford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deloit
- Population from the 2020 Census: 254 people
- Boyer
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Boyer is located in Crawford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boyer
- Arion
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Arion is located in Crawford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arion
- Population from the 2020 Census: 107 people
- Bell
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Bell is located in Crawford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bell
- Greene County
- Scranton
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Guthrie County
- The following are listed by their distance from Manning, with the one closest to Manning listed first.
- North Branch
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- North Branch is located in Guthrie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Branch
- Bayard
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Harrison County
- Dunlap
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Pottawattamie County
- Walnut
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Walnut is located in Pottawattamie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut
- Population from the 2020 Census: 768 people
- Sac County
- The following are listed by their distance from Manning, with the one closest to Manning listed first.
- Herring ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Herring is located in Sac County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Herring
- Sac City Junction ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Sac City Junction is located in Sac County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sac City Junction
- Auburn
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Wall Lake
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Wall Lake is located in Sac County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wall Lake
- Population from the 2020 Census: 753 people
- Grant City
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Grant City is located in Sac County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grant City
- Lake View
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Odebolt
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Odebolt is located in Sac County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Odebolt
- Population from the 2020 Census: 933 people
- Shelby County
- The following are listed by their distance from Manning, with the one closest to Manning listed first.
- Botna
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Botna is located in Shelby County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Botna
- Irwin
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Defiance
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Defiance is located in Shelby County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Defiance
- Population from the 2020 Census: 260 people
- Kirkman
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Kirkman is located in Shelby County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kirkman
- Population from the 2020 Census: 61 people
- Earling
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Earling is located in Shelby County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Earling
- Population from the 2020 Census: 403 people
- Elk Horn
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Westphalia
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Westphalia is located in Shelby County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westphalia
- Population from the 2020 Census: 117 people
- Harlan
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
- Panama
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Corley
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Corley is located in Shelby County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corley
- Portsmouth
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Tennant
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Tennant is located in Shelby County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tennant
- Population from the 2020 Census: 63 people
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Manning, see our County-by-County Page for Manning.
Cemeteries Near Manning ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Manning.
This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.
Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Manning - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Manning covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Manning, with the one closest to Manning listed first.
- Manning Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Iowa Twp. Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Gray Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Sacred Heart Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Lincoln Twp. Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Hayes Twp. Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Hayes Twp. Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Elba Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- St. Augustine Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Mt. Olivet Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Cameron Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Continue List (148 more) ...
- Holy Angels Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Nishnabotna Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Douglas Twp. Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
Nearby Communities in 1895 ...
We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<2>
The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Manning had a population of 1,233 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service. In 2020, Manning had a population of 1,403 people.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Manning, with the one closest to Manning listed first.
- Aspinwall
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Aspinwall is located in Crawford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aspinwall
- Population from the 2020 Census: 40 people
- Botna
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Botna is located in Shelby County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Botna
- Gray
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Templeton
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Halbur
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Halbur is located in Carroll County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halbur
- Population from the 2020 Census: 252 people
- Manilla
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Roselle
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Roselle is located in Carroll County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roselle
- Astor
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Astor is located in Crawford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Astor
- Westside
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Irwin
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Fiscus
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Fiscus is located in Audubon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fiscus
- Ross
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Ross is located in Audubon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ross
- Continue List (14 more) ...
- Dedham
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Vail
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Arcadia
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Arcadia is located in Carroll County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arcadia
- Population from the 2020 Census: 531 people
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Manning. See our List of 1890's Communities around Manning.
Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Manning ...
An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.
Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 87 newspapers that have been published in the area around Manning.
We have organized these newspapers into two lists:
- A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Manning. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Manning and those printed in the larger area surrounding Manning.
- An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3> of Manning.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.
To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Manning:
- Websites specific to Iowa
- Pages specific to Carroll County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Audubon County
- Calhoun County
- Crawford County
- Greene County
- Guthrie County
- Harrison County
- Pottawattamie County
- Sac County
- Shelby County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Iowa
Footnotes ...
| <1> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <2> | We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Manning, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <3> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Manning) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |