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Manteca is a city in San Joaquin County in California's San Joaquin Valley, and it was incorporated on May 28, 1918.

Manteca's name is Spanish for lard — local history holds that the community's name was the result of a railroad spelling error that appeared on early train tickets and simply stuck.

Manteca grew up around a Central Pacific Railroad station first called Cowell and formed around the crossroads of Yosemite Avenue and Main Street, where the Southern Pacific and Tidewater railroads crossed.

Manteca had a population of 83,498 at the 2020 census, up sharply from 67,096 in 2010, and Census Bureau estimates put it near 96,693 by July 2025, making it one of California's faster-growing cities.

Manteca has about 27,607 households with an average of 3.20 people per household, and about 72% of its homes are owner-occupied.

The countryside around Manteca grows about 70% of California's jack-o'-lantern pumpkins, a crop honored by the Pitching Pumpkins mural in the city's downtown mural series.

Manteca boomed in the 1950s as inexpensive housing drew workers from the Sharpe Army Depot in neighboring Lathrop and industrial plants in southern San Joaquin County.

Manteca is home to a Big League Dreams sports park, opened in 2006, where softball and baseball are played on fields built as scaled-down replicas of Fenway Park, Yankee Stadium, and Wrigley Field.

Downtown Manteca is known for its outdoor murals organized by the Manteca Mural Society, including the 4,000-square-foot Crossroads mural depicting the business district as it looked in 1917.

Manteca sits at a genuine crossroads of the Central Valley, where State Route 99 meets State Route 120, the main highway route from the Bay Area toward Yosemite National Park.