Mangum was an
unincorporated town in
Eastland County
Eastland County is a county located in central West Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 17,725. The county seat is Eastland. The county was founded in 1858 and later organized in 1873. It is named for William Mosby Eastland, ...
,
Texas, United States. It was founded in the late 1890s at the intersection of the
Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railway (abandoned in 1967) and the Eastland, Wichita Falls and Gulf Railroad (abandoned in 1944). Mangum was named for the Bob Mangum family. The town's population peaked in 1915 at 125; by 1936, only a handful of residents remained. Sometime in the late 1980s, the town was removed from highway maps. In 2000, the population of Mangum was estimated at 15. Today the site is a
ghost town.
History
In 1910, the town had a population of 300 people.
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Ghost towns in Central Texas
Geography of Eastland County, Texas
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