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.
Then and now
1886 to 1995The 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.


Compare 1886 against another survey:
Population over time
2 figuresManton 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 347 | |
| 2020 | 310 | -37 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 surveys from 27 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1886 USGS Lassen Peak quadrangle1:250000
- 1892 USGS Lassen Peak quadrangle1:250000
- 1894 USGS Lassen Peak quadrangle1:250000, 8 printings
- 1935 USGS Paynes Creek quadrangle1:96000
- 1941 USGS Mineral quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Westwood quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Manton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Westwood quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Westwood quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Susanville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS Susanville quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Manton quadrangle1:24000
- 1989 USGS Lake Almanor quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1995 USGS Manton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
180 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 54 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 40 |
| Debris and open burning | 34 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 18 |
| Natural | 13 |
| Smoking | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Shasta-Trinity Unit | ROCK |
| 8 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Northern California District | ROCK |
| 7 September 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Tehama-Glenn Unit | DURHAM, M. |
| 5 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Tehama-Glenn Unit | MANTON RD MANTON 5 |
| 5 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Shasta-Trinity Unit | not named |
| 5 September 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | 189 acres | Tehama-Glenn Unit | HOUDEK, M |
| 5 September 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Tehama-Glenn Unit | MANTON |
| 4 September 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Shasta-Trinity Unit | GRACE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joe Arnol Prospect | Gold | Unknown |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paynes Creek | 7.3 miles | 27 | |
| Marian Place | 9.0 miles | 27 | |
| McKenzie Place | 9.8 miles | 27 | |
| Wade Place | 9.9 miles | 27 | |
| Lyman Springs | 10.2 miles | 27 | |
| Dantuma Place | 10.5 miles | 27 | |
| Finley Place | 10.6 miles | 27 | |
| Lyonsville | 11.1 miles | 27 |
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 Manton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2066862 | The 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.













