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Is no one else going to talk about how weird it is to see a square manhole cover? Now there's a risk of dropping the cover down the hole due to the shape.
It’s not a manhole, it’s way too small. But yeah not sure why it’s square. Could be European, they do weird stuff like that all the time.
You're right. OP called it a manhole, so I assumed. But looking at the size compared to the foot, it's too small to be a manhole cover.
It's probably a hand hole for accessing a pipe or cable junction, likely smaller because it's where business or homes hook in. I work for an ISP, and most of ours are about this size
Might be a valve or fire hydrant underneath
It's next to a drainpipe...
I see small square junction box things like this all the time in California. Mostly in-between where two homes' lawns meet. The one I had in my lawn before I moved to an apartment sucked because it was slightly raised from the grass and was in an awkward position to try and get the mower around.
Square covers like this are common globally. AFAIK also in the US:
https://manholecoversdirect.com/products/square-manhole-covers-and-frames/
Setting square tiles or paving stones around a circular cover is a pain in the ass.
But it wouldn't be the first time the US is weird, like the whole imperial measurements thing, so whatever. Or maybe you live in a state that decided square manhole covers were biblically incorrect.
For a while in the programming world "why are manhole covers round?" was a common question to be asked in interviews. I had no fucking clue the first time I was asked, but subsequently I would put on my deep pondering face and reason through it out loud and arrive at the correct answer, which never failed to impress the interviewer. After a few years I started owning up to the fact that I (and everyone else) had already heard that question.