Loma Community Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Mesa County · listed in 1995 · category: Building.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1341 Co. Rd. 13, Loma, 81524
When was it listed? November 1995
Category. building
Census division. Fruita
National Register reference number. 95001338 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

255 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 255 fires within 5 miles of Loma Community Hall between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,654 acres in total. 48 started naturally. 5 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	132
Natural	48
Smoking	37
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Recreation and ceremony	8
Arson/incendiarism	5
Debris and open burning	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Fireworks	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Northwest District, Grand Junction	KINGS VIEW
6 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Mesa County	MM 20
5 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Lower Valley Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
5 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Lower Valley Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
4 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Lower Valley Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
3 September 2015	Natural	under an acre	Lower Valley Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
3 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	LOMA
25 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Lower Valley Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Mesa County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Loma Community Hall: 10 unknowns, 3 producers, 3 occurrences. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension, Fire Clay (Refractory), Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unnamed Mine	Stone	Unknown
Loma Rock Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Producer
Unk	Clay	Unknown
Unknown	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Occurrence
Unknown	Stone, Dimension	Occurrence
Unknown	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Occurrence
Unnamed Mine	Clay	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Mesa County

Storms near this property

11 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Loma, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 4 funnel cloud, 2 heavy rain, 1 wildfire, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2021	Flash Flood	Loma	$10,000	A flash flood occurred 10 miles north-northeast of Loma as a ten foot wall of water flowed outside of a normally dry wash. Evacuations took place for homes along 16 Road. Though not within the Pine Gulch Fire burn scar, the heavy rain originated from the scar and flowed downstream.
May 2023	Flood	Loma	$500	An NWS employee riding on a bike trail outside Loma reported flooding along the trail near Reed Wash. The river was running incredibly high underneath the I-70 bridge.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Loma	-	Wind gusts estimated to be in the 60 to 65 mph range knocked down a couple of tree limbs about 6 to 8 inches in diameter northwest of Fruita. The branches blocked P Road just west of 15 Road.
March 2019	Hail	Loma	-	A severe thunderstorm dropped mostly dime-sized hail as well as some stones estimated to be the size of quarters north-northeast of Loma.
June 2015	Heavy Rain	Loma	-	A strong thunderstorm produced heavy rainfall within a short period of time which produced minor flooding. Radar estimated rainfall amounts were in excess of an inch in some places. Rainfall measurements up to 0.95 of an inch were measured in the western portion of Grand Junction.
June 2009	Heavy Rain	Loma	-	Heavy rainfall resulted in minor street and road flooding. A NWS employee in the impacted area measured 0.75 of an inch of rain within 35 minutes.
August 2008	Funnel Cloud	Loma	-	no account filed
August 2008	Funnel Cloud	Loma	-	no account filed
November 1999	Wildfire	Loma	-	no account filed
August 1999	Funnel Cloud	Loma	-	no account filed
May 1998	Funnel Cloud	Loma	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mesa County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Harry and Lilly Phillips House	4.7 miles	1997
Fruita Museum	5.6 miles	1996
Fruita Bridge	6.1 miles	1985
Saddlehorn Comfort Station	7.6 miles	1994
Saddlehorn Utility Area Historic District	7.8 miles	1994
Saddlehorn Caretaker's House and Garage	8.0 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95001338 in Record Group 79.
Mesa County	All 33 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.