Loop, Texas
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Seagraves census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79342. The Survey maps it on the Loop quadrangle. 216 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,257 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLoop fell from 225 to 216 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 | 225 | |
| 2020 | 216 | -9 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 6 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.
- 1954 USGS Hobbs quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Hobbs quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Loop quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Seminole quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Seminole quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
3 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Loop between 2006 and 2014, burning about 216 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 | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 September 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | 140 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | PICKUP & CRP |
| 30 November 2006 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 28 November 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 75 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
Storms near this place
23 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Loop in 23 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 14 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1995 | Hail | Loop | $250,000 | Hen egg- to tennis ball-size hail fell from a storm that move across the town of Loop. The local school sustained $60K in roof damage alone. |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Loop | $40,000 | Powerlines were downed by strong thunderstorm winds in the Ashmore community. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Loop | $3,000 | A thunderstorm moved across Gaines County and produced tennis ball sized hail about four miles southeast of Loop. Windows were reported to be broken and crops damaged. The cost of damage is a very rough estimate. |
| June 2024 | Tornado (EFU) | Loop | - | Multiple observers reported a brief cone tornado to the northeast of Loop. The tornado only lasted two to three minutes over open fields. The tornado likely dissipated near US Highway 83. No damage was reported and this tornado is rated EF-Unknown. Path is estimated from reports and radar data. |
| June 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Loop | - | A thunderstorm moved across Gaines County and produced a tornado about one mile west of Loop. The tornado was seen by a trained spotter and reported to be brief. There was no damage reported with this tornado so it was rated as an EF-0. Both the path length and width were estimated. |
| June 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Loop | - | A trained spotter observed a tornado northeast of the intersection of Gaines County Road 116 and Farm to Market Road 1420. This occurred in open country and did no damage. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Loop | - | Baseball sized hail fell in Loop. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Loop | - | Golfball sized hail fell at the intersection of Gaines County Roads 303 and 120. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Loop | - | Golfball to baseball sized hail fell at the intersection of Farm to Market Roads 303 and 1066. |
| June 2007 | Hail | Loop | - | Golfball to softball sized hail fell at the intersection of Farm to Market Roads 1016 and 133. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Loop | - | Severe thunderstorm winds combined with small hail to wipe out two cotton crops in eastern Gaines County. The winds were strong enough to blow several truck tires a distance of one hundred yards. |
| May 2002 | Hail | Loop | - | Reported by the employees at the local cotton gin. |
| May 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Loop | - | A cooperative observer reported downburst winds to 60 miles an hour in northeastern Gaines County. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Loop | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Hail | Loop | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Loop | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Hail | Loop | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Loop | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Loop | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Loop | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Loop | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Loop | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Loop | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ashmore | 7.3 miles | 7 | |
| Seagraves | 8.1 miles | 6 | |
| White City | 9.7 miles | 6 | |
| Fairview | 16.4 miles | 6 | |
| Seminole | 18.2 miles | 6 | |
| Paynes Corner | 24.0 miles | 6 | |
| Higginbotham | 30.6 miles | 6 | |
| State Line | 36.8 miles | 6 |
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 Loop | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q982276 | 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 1340546. 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.




