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Mentone

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TX, USA

Latitude & Longitude: 31° 42' 31.93533", -103° 36' 17.6100800004"
 
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     Only town in Loving County -- last organized, most sparsely populated (both in total and per square mile) county in Texas. Established 1931 and named for an earlier town (10 miles north) which legend says was maned by a French surveyor-prospector after his home on the Riviera. With population of 42, Mentone has no water system. (Water is hauled in.) Nor does it have a bank, doctor, hospital, newspaper, lawyer, civic club, or cemetery. There are only two recorded graves in county; some Indian skeletons, artifacts are found. Oil farming, cattle county.

This page last updated: 7/15/2008

Mentone Historical Marker Location Map, Texas