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Manton is a small city in northeastern Wexford County in Northern Michigan, entirely surrounded by Cedar Creek Township.

The Manton townsite was purchased and cleared in 1872 along the proposed route of the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad by settlers Ezra Harger and George Manton and a third partner, William Mears.

Local residents first called the place Cedar Creek, but the railroad named its new station Manton after George Manton, the settlement's first postmaster.

Manton was incorporated as a village in 1877 and did not become a city until 1923.

Manton once served as the county seat of Wexford County, but the seat was forcibly moved to Cadillac after an 1882 county-wide vote in the episode remembered as the Battle of Manton, when a sheriff's posse rode a special train to seize the county records.

The 2020 census counted 1,258 residents in Manton, down slightly from 1,287 in 2010; at the 2010 census the city had 504 households averaging 2.54 people each.

An Old Order Amish community was founded near Manton in 1993, and it is known for being more open than most Amish settlements to outside "seekers" who wish to join.

The city covers just 1.61 square miles, and the US 131 freeway ends just north of town — its final freeway exit, exit 191 at M-42, sits southeast of Manton before the highway continues north as a two-lane road toward Kalkaska and Petoskey.

Manton's ZIP code is 49663 and its Main Street carries the Bus. US 131 business loop through the center of town.