Lometa, Texas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Lometa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76853. The Survey maps it on the Lometa quadrangle. 753 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,493 feet above sea level.
On record in Lometa
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
US 190 Bridge at the Colorado Riverlisted 1996
Population over time
3 figuresLometa fell from 782 to 753 between 2000 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 782 | |
| 2010 | 856 | +74 (+9%) |
| 2020 | 753 | -103 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1887 USGS Lampasas quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Lampasas quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Brownwood quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Lometa quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Lometa quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS San Saba quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
56 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Lometa between 2006 and 2020, burning about 1,053 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 31 |
| Debris and open burning | 19 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 August 2006 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 5 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 24 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 3500 W HWY 190 |
| 18 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 17000 N HWY 183 |
| 17 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LOMETA |
| 17 August 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 817 CR 2659 |
| 17 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 14 August 2006 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
27 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lometa in 27 storm reports between 1993 and 2016: 17 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 6 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lometa | 6 hurt, $5,000,000 | A downburst that caused F2-like damage hit Lometa and areas up to three miles to the east. Wind speeds were estimated at 115 mph by the survey team, based on the damage pattern. Virtually every structure in town received damage, either from high winds or wind-driven baseball-size hail. The damage path through Lometa was north-to-south with buildings facing north having paint sand-blasted off from the wind. One house, one mile east of Lometa, had holes in steel siding from wind-driven hail. Trees three to four feet in diameter were blown down. On the west side of town, a tractor-semitrailer was blown over and pushed 20 feet before coming to rest. One mobile home, which was tied down, was not blown over by the wind, but in the center of the mobile home, where there were no tie downs, the damage was severe. The mobile home was still destroyed, but there were no injuries as the residents had taken shelter elsewhere before the storm struck. |
| May 1994 | Hail | Lometa | $500,000 | The severe thunderstorm which struck Lometa was accompanied by wind-driven golf ball to baseball-size hail. Considerable damage was reported on the north side of structures, with penetration of roofs and even steel siding in one instance. Crops in the area of the wind-driven hail were destroyed. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Lometa | $20,000 | Grapefruit-size hail reported in Bend. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lometa | $15,000 | A horse trailer on a property west of Lometa was overturned and tossed through a fence. Several large trees were uprooted at Lometa Regional Park and additional large trees, including cedar trees, were uprooted in and around Lometa. The sign at the Church of Hills was blown out of its concrete base. |
| March 2014 | Hail | Lometa | $10,000 | no account filed |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lometa | $8,000 | Sixty to seventy mph wind gusts were estimated 3 miles west of Lometa. |
| April 2007 | Hail | Lometa | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Flash Flood | Lometa | - | Four feet of water was over the intersection of FM 581 and CR 2600. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Lometa | - | The following areas were closed due to high water: CR 2200 at CR 2600, School Creek Crossing at CR 2200, and Barkley Road at CR 2080. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lometa | - | Thunderstorm winds damaged an outbuilding. No dollar estimate of damage was reported. |
| October 1993 | Tornado (F0) | Lometa | - | A brief tornado touchdown was reported in Northern Lampasas County by the Department of Public Safety. |
| April 2016 | Hail | Lometa | - | no account filed |
| March 2014 | Hail | Lometa | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Lometa | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Lometa | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lometa | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Lometa | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Lometa | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Lometa | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Lometa | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Lometa | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Lometa | - | no account filed |
| March 1999 | Hail | Lometa | - | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Hail | Lometa | - | no account filed |
| October 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lometa | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Lometa | - | no account filed |
| November 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lometa | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senterfitt | 2.7 miles | 13 | |
| Senterfitt (historical) | 2.9 miles | 13 | |
| Ogles (historical) | 7.5 miles | 14 | |
| Nix | 7.7 miles | 14 | |
| Red Bluff Crossing | 9.2 miles | 16 | |
| Moline | 12.3 miles | 13 | |
| Adamsville | 13.2 miles | 13 | |
| Radio Junction | 15.3 miles | 12 |
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 Lometa | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q975258 | 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 1361632. 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.





