Actor James Dean received a traffic ticket here before a fatal crash.

For statistical purposes, the United States Census Bureau has defined that community as a census-designated place (CDP).

The officer wrote Mettler Station as the location of the infraction.

[1] The locality has an area of 0.2 square miles (0.52 km2) and an elevation of 541 feet (165 m).

At the 2000 census 157 people lived in 31 households (37 housing units).

Mettler's population was about six years younger than California at large.