Mangham, LA

Mangham is a Richland Parish village with 624 people at the 2020 census, in northeastern Louisiana. Louisiana Highway 15 runs through town, and the community straddles the Richland–Franklin parish line. Mangham was established in 1890 and took its name from Wiley P. Mangham, the publisher of the Richland Beacon-News in nearby Rayville. That connection gives the village a distinctly newspaper-shaped origin: its name came from a regional editor whose paper recorded parish business, school, and civic life.

Education keeps the village tied to the wider parish. Richland Parish operates Mangham Elementary, Mangham Junior High, and Mangham High School, with the school board based in Rayville. The village sits in a parish whose older economy grew around timber and cotton, and its road network still links local farms and communities across the flat northeastern Louisiana landscape. The local thread is straightforward but specific: Mangham is a border village named for a newspaper publisher, with three public-school campuses and Highway 15 carrying the everyday connection through Richland Parish.