Loma, North Dakota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Loma City. It lies in ZIP code area 58311. The Survey maps it on the Loma quadrangle. 10 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,572 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLoma fell from 16 to 10 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 16 | |
| 2020 | 10 | -6 (-38%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Loma quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Langdon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
22 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Loma between 1995 and 2019, burning about 1,060 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 13 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 June 2013 | Debris and open burning | 11 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | DAHL |
| 6 May 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 160 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | STORLIEWPA |
| 6 May 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 25 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | DAHLWPA |
| 6 May 1998 | Debris and open burning | 12 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | WATNEWPA |
| 23 May 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 29 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | BILLINGS LAKE |
| 17 May 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.8 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | DAHL |
| 16 May 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | WALTZ |
| 11 May 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 75 acres | Devil's Lake Wetland Management District | WATNE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Loma in 7 storm reports between 2000 and 2010: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Loma | - | Peak wind measured by the Hampden RAWS sensor near the Ramsey County line. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Loma | - | Several large tree branches were broken off by the strong wind. The nearby Hampden RAWS mesonet site measured a peak wind of 56 mph at 634 pm CST. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Loma | - | Power poles were snapped off and power lines were down. Numerous trees were uprooted or snapped off. The town elevator was also damaged. |
| June 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Loma | - | The tornado briefly touched down in a field. |
| July 2002 | Hail | Loma | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Loma | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Loma | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Loma | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1907413 | The 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 1029963. 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.



