Mangum
Ghost town · United States
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 32.320, -98.859
Why it was abandoned
📉 Economic decline
Detected automatically from the text: It was founded in the late 1890s at the intersection of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railway and the Eastland, Wichita Falls and Gulf Railroad.
History
Mangum was an unincorporated town in Eastland County, Texas, United States. It was founded in the late 1890s at the intersection of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railway and the Eastland, Wichita Falls and Gulf Railroad. 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. In 2000, the population of Mangum was estimated at 15.