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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.

Loop within Gaines County

Population over time

2 figures

Loop 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.

YearPeople Change
2010225
2020216-9 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 6 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

3 since 2006

Regional 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/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
2 September 2014Equipment and vehicle use140 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePICKUP & CRP
30 November 2006Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
28 November 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined75 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE

Every fire recorded in Gaines County

Storms near this place

23 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1995HailLoop$250,000Hen 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 2008Thunderstorm WindLoop$40,000Powerlines were downed by strong thunderstorm winds in the Ashmore community.
June 2015HailLoop$3,000A 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 2024Tornado (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 2015Tornado (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 2007Tornado (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 2007HailLoop-Baseball sized hail fell in Loop.
June 2007HailLoop-Golfball sized hail fell at the intersection of Gaines County Roads 303 and 120.
June 2007HailLoop-Golfball to baseball sized hail fell at the intersection of Farm to Market Roads 303 and 1066.
June 2007HailLoop-Golfball to softball sized hail fell at the intersection of Farm to Market Roads 1016 and 133.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindLoop-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 2002HailLoop-Reported by the employees at the local cotton gin.
May 1993Thunderstorm WindLoop-A cooperative observer reported downburst winds to 60 miles an hour in northeastern Gaines County.
May 2008HailLoop-no account filed
June 2007HailLoop-no account filed
June 2001HailLoop-no account filed
April 2000HailLoop-no account filed
May 1996HailLoop-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindLoop-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindLoop-no account filed
May 1996HailLoop-no account filed
May 1996HailLoop-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindLoop-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gaines 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
Ashmore7.3 miles7
Seagraves8.1 miles6
White City9.7 miles6
Fairview16.4 miles6
Seminole18.2 miles6
Paynes Corner24.0 miles6
Higginbotham30.6 miles6
State Line36.8 miles6

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 LoopAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982276The 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.