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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.

Lometa within Lampasas County

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

Population over time

3 figures

Lometa 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.

YearPeople Change
2000782
2010856+74 (+9%)
2020753-103 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

56 since 2006

Regional 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/undetermined31
Debris and open burning19
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 August 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3500 W HWY 190
18 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service17000 N HWY 183
17 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLOMETA
17 August 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service817 CR 2659
17 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
14 August 2006Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lampasas County

Storms near this place

27 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1994Thunderstorm WindLometa6 hurt, $5,000,000A 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 1994HailLometa$500,000The 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 2006HailLometa$20,000Grapefruit-size hail reported in Bend.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindLometa$15,000A 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 2014HailLometa$10,000no account filed
April 2015Thunderstorm WindLometa$8,000Sixty to seventy mph wind gusts were estimated 3 miles west of Lometa.
April 2007HailLometa$5,000no account filed
May 2007Flash FloodLometa-Four feet of water was over the intersection of FM 581 and CR 2600.
July 2007Flash FloodLometa-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 1998Thunderstorm WindLometa-Thunderstorm winds damaged an outbuilding. No dollar estimate of damage was reported.
October 1993Tornado (F0)Lometa-A brief tornado touchdown was reported in Northern Lampasas County by the Department of Public Safety.
April 2016HailLometa-no account filed
March 2014HailLometa-no account filed
June 2007HailLometa-no account filed
April 2007HailLometa-no account filed
May 2007Thunderstorm WindLometa-no account filed
April 2006HailLometa-no account filed
June 2003HailLometa-no account filed
May 2002HailLometa-no account filed
May 2002HailLometa-no account filed
May 2000HailLometa-no account filed
May 2000HailLometa-no account filed
March 1999HailLometa-no account filed
April 1997HailLometa-no account filed
October 1996Thunderstorm WindLometa-no account filed
June 1995HailLometa-no account filed
November 1994Thunderstorm WindLometa-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lampasas 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
Senterfitt2.7 miles13
Senterfitt (historical)2.9 miles13
Ogles (historical)7.5 miles14
Nix7.7 miles14
Red Bluff Crossing9.2 miles16
Moline12.3 miles13
Adamsville13.2 miles13
Radio Junction15.3 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 LometaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q975258The 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.