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Loma, Montana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Big Sandy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59460. It stands on Teton River. The Survey maps it on the Loma West quadrangle. 65 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,575 feet above sea level.

Loma within Chouteau County

Population over time

2 figures

Loma fell from 85 to 65 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201085
202065-20 (-24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Loma between 2008 and 2018, burning about 5,588 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Firearms and explosives use1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Fireworks1
Debris and open burning1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
14 July 2015Firearms and explosives use34 acresNorth Central Montana DistrictROWE BENCH ROAD
30 June 2018Fireworks30 acresNortheastern Land Officenot named
24 March 2008Debris and open burning5,519 acresNortheastern Land OfficeCHOUTEAU CO COMPLEX
12 November 2016Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresCentral Land OfficeEAST RIDGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chouteau County

Storms near this place

27 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Loma in 27 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 18 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2025Thunderstorm WindLoma-Montana mesonet station Loma N.
August 2024HailLoma-Trained spotter reported hail up to the size of quarters.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindLoma-The time and location was estimated. A farmer stated that freshly cut hay was blown by approximately 80 mph winds.
September 2022Thunderstorm WindLoma-Mesonet station MTLOM Loma (MT DOT) reported a 52 knot wind gust.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindLoma-MDT Loma station measured a 53 kt (61 mph) thunderstorm wind gust.
July 2020HailLoma-Trained spotter reported penny size (.75 inch diameter) and some quarter size hail (1 inch diameter) covering the ground. Some crop damage observed.
July 2020HailLoma-Trained spotter reported quarter size hail.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindLoma-Loma mesonet station mtlom.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindLoma-DOT Sensor measured 67 mph gust.
June 2018FloodLoma-Facebook video of flooding along Teton River in Loma. Apparently runoff from nearby and nearly-stationary showers and thunderstorms caused the river to overflow its banks.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindLoma-Peak wind gust measured at the Loma DOT sensor.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindLoma-Trained spotter estimates 60 to 70 mph wind gusts with tree limbs of 3 inches in diameter down.
August 2014Heavy RainLoma-Heavy rain, measuring 1.26 inches in 24 hours, was reported.
July 2014HailLoma-Large hail, measuring 1.5 inches (ping pong ball sized), was reported along with a lot of pea sized hail. Hail caused a couple cars to slid into a ditch off Highway 87.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindLoma-High wind gusts, measured at 55KT (63 MPH), were reported at the Loma, MT DoT sensor.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindLoma-High wind gusts, measured at 52KT (60MPH), were reported at the Loma DOT sensor, 1 mi N of Loma, MT. An airplane hangar in Big Sandy was destroyed.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindLoma-High winds measuring 52KT (60MPH) were reported 1 mile N of Loma, MT.
August 2013HailLoma-Hail measuring 1.00 inches (quarter sized) was reported 5 miles NNE of Loma, MT.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindLoma-Winds gusted to 52KT (60MPH) as reported at the Loma DOT site 1 mile N of Loma.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindLoma-Wind gust up to 75KT (87MPH) was reported by the public 3 miles NE of Loma. The roof of a garage was blown off and large tree branches were also reported to be down.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindLoma-A thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 65 mph at Loma 1N.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindLoma-A thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 58 mph at Loma 1N (the Loma DOT site).
April 2008Thunderstorm WindLoma-Wind gust measured at Loma Montana Department of Transportation sensor. Power outages and broken power lines also scattered across the county. Damage from winds associated with a gust front.
July 2007HailLoma-A severe thunderstorm dropped 1.75 inch diameter hail at Loma 5N.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindLoma-no account filed
August 2000HailLoma-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindLoma-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chouteau County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Ophir (historical)1.7 miles14
Lippard6.0 miles14
Colony Bay (historical)8.7 miles7
Pleasant Valley (historical)9.6 miles13
Stranahan10.5 miles14
Fort Benton11.9 miles14
Virgelle14.5 miles10
Inga (historical)14.7 miles12

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on LomaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q431737The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 773566. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.

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.