Manton, CA

Manton is a Tehama County census-designated place with a post office that has operated since 1889. Local tradition says the name grew from “Man’s Town,” because many of the first settlers were men. That story gives Manton a rare kind of place-name explanation: less grand than a founder’s surname, but much easier to picture. The community sits in northern California’s inland foothill country, with hot, dry summers and a warm-summer Mediterranean climate. Manton is a post-office place whose name remembers the people who first arrived, and whose map still reads more like a community than a formal town.