{{Infobox settlement |name = Mentone, Texas |official_name = |settlement_type = Census-designated place |nickname = |motto = |image_skyline = Mentone Courthouse.JPG |imagesize = |image_caption = Loving County Courthouse, the only two-story building in Mentone, is listed in the National Register of Historic Places |image_flag = |image_seal = |pushpin_map = Texas#USA |pushpin_label = Mentone |pushpin_label_position = |pushpin_map_caption = Location in Texas##Location in the United States |pushpin_mapsize = |image_map = |map_caption = |image_map1 = |mapsize1 = |map_caption1 = |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name = United States |subdivision_type1 = State |subdivision_name1 = Texas |subdivision_type2 = County |subdivision_name2 = Loving |government_footnotes = |government_type = |leader_title = |leader_name = |leader_title1 = |leader_name1 = |established_title = Founded |established_date = 1931 |unit_pref = Imperial |area_footnotes = |area_magnitude = |area_total_km2 = 0.44 |area_land_km2 = 0.44 |area_water_km2 = 0.0 |population_as_of = 2020 |population_footnotes = |population_total = 22 |population_density_km2 = 50 |timezone = Central (CST) |utc_offset = -6 |timezone_DST = CDT |utc_offset_DST = -5 |elevation_footnotes = |elevation_ft = 2684 |coordinates = |postal_code_type = ZIP code |postal_code = 79754 |area_code = 432 |blank_name = FIPS code |blank_info = 48-47676 |blank1_name = GNIS feature ID |blank1_info = 1362622 |website = |footnotes = }}Mentone' () is an unincorporated small town in, and the county seat of, Loving County, Texas, United States. It had a population of 19 in 2010, almost a quarter of the county's 82 people at the time. Mentone was, until recent years, the least-populated unincorporated county seat in the United States, but lost that distinction with the 2010 census to Gann Valley, South Dakota, which had a population of 14. Mentone was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1967 as the "Smallest County Seat in Texas". History Named after Menton, France, by a French surveyor, present-day Mentone is actually the second such named community in Loving County; an earlier Mentone was founded south of the current town in 1893, but was abandoned in 1905. A second town on that site was called Juanita and then Porterville, but was deserted anew when Mentone was re-established in 1931, with most residents moving to the new town. The town on the current site was named Ramsey before being renamed. During its heyday, Mentone boasted five cafes, five gas stations, two hotels, two drugstores, two recreation halls, two barbershops, a dance hall, a machine shop, and a dry cleaner. It also had its own newspaper, the Mentone Monitor, which published from 1932 to 1935. After