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Manton, California

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the East Tehama census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96059. The Survey maps it on the Manton quadrangle. 310 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,008 feet above sea level.

Manton within Tehama County

Then and now

1886 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 109 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Manton, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Manton, surveyed 1886

Compare 1886 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Manton fell from 347 to 310 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
2010347
2020310-37 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 27 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

180 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 180 fires within 5 miles of Manton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 33,502 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 18 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined54
Equipment and vehicle use40
Debris and open burning34
Arson/incendiarism18
Natural13
Smoking8
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Recreation and ceremony2

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 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresShasta-Trinity UnitROCK
8 September 2003Debris and open burning4.0 acresNorthern California DistrictROCK
7 September 1996Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTehama-Glenn UnitDURHAM, M.
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTehama-Glenn UnitMANTON RD MANTON 5
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreShasta-Trinity Unitnot named
5 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use189 acresTehama-Glenn UnitHOUDEK, M
5 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTehama-Glenn UnitMANTON
4 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreShasta-Trinity UnitGRACE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tehama 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 Manton: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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
Joe Arnol ProspectGoldUnknown

Every working recorded in Tehama 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
Paynes Creek7.3 miles27
Marian Place9.0 miles27
McKenzie Place9.8 miles27
Wade Place9.9 miles27
Lyman Springs10.2 miles27
Dantuma Place10.5 miles27
Finley Place10.6 miles27
Lyonsville11.1 miles27

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 MantonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2066862The 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 1659048. 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.