Manti, Iowa is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in Fremont County, in the

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. Manti was founded in 1852 by

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and Edmund Fisher, both of whom were prominent members of the newly founded Mormon religion, and led the formation of the

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. Manti originally received its name in reference to a city mentioned in the

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Cutler left from

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and traveled west until settling in the south western corner of Iowa with several others families to form Manti. The Mormon community stayed until the late 1860s before relocating to

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. Within Manti, there is a dense canopy of trees and many wild animals living within the former town. There are walking trails offered on site, past ruins of the former site of Manti School and the graveyard which was once used for those living at the town. Manti was occupied from 1852 until 1874.

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Unincorporated communities in Fremont County, Iowa Christian communities 19th-century Mormonism Populated places established in 1852 1852 establishments in Iowa {{FremontCountyIA-geo-stub