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MANTHA, TEXAS. Mantha was fourteen miles southwest of Pittsburg and five miles southwest of Leesburg in far southwestern Camp County. The settlement was the site of a post office from 1895 until 1901, and in 1896 it had an estimated population of ten. By 1910 it had ceased to exist as a named community.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Artemesia L. B. Spencer, The Camp County Story (Fort Worth: Branch-Smith, 1974).

Cecil Harper, Jr.

The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this article.

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