Manson is an

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and

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in Chelan County in the

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. It was named in 1912 for Manson F. Backus, president of the Lake Chelan Land Company. Manson is located in the north-central portion of the state on the north shore of

Lake Chelan Lake Chelan ( ) is a narrow, long lake in Chelan County, north-central Washington state, U.S. It is an overdeepened lake and resembles a fjord, with an average width of . Near its upper end, the lake surface lies more than below peaks less t ...

, approximately northwest of the city of Chelan. Village of Manson Washington from Wapato Point

Manson is part of the

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East Wenatchee East Wenatchee is a city in Douglas County, Washington, Douglas County, Washington (state), Washington, United States. The population at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census was 13,190, a 129.1% increase on the 2000 census, having annexed ...

Metropolitan Statistical Area. The

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ZIP code for Manson is 98831. As of the 2020 census, the population in the Manson was 1,523. 2010 was the first year that Manson was tracked by the census bureau. Manson is home to a number of wineries.

References

External links

Manson Chamber of CommerceLake Chelan Chamber of Commerce''Manson Village Tribune''
online newspaper
Video tour of Manson
- Tour town, waterfront, and wineries. Census-designated places in Washington (state) Census-designated places in Chelan County, Washington Wenatchee–East Wenatchee metropolitan area {{ChelanCountyWA-geo-stub