Loving, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Jean-Loving census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76460. The Survey maps it on the Loving quadrangle. 143 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,299 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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 Wichita Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Wichita Falls quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Loving quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Graham quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
124 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Loving between 2005 and 2019, burning about 4,662 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 47 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 27 |
| Debris and open burning | 19 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 15 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 16 N |
| 9 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BURDICK |
| 30 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GAHAGAN PIPE LINE |
| 25 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ORR LEASE |
| 22 September 2011 | Natural | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ORR |
| 22 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 14 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 114 W JERMYN |
| 13 September 2011 | Natural | 100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FARMER FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
26 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Loving in 26 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 19 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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 2020 | Hail | Loving | $50,000 | Golf ball to baseball sized hail was reported by broadcast media and trained spotters in the city of Loving, TX. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Loving | $13,000 | Emergency manager reported a large shipping container that was one quarter full of wood was flipped onto its side and tossed several feet from its original location. A barbed wire fence was pulled up and minor roof damage was done to a home northwest of Bryson. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Loving | $7,000 | A person on Facebook reported golf ball sized hail in Loving. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Loving | $7,000 | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Hail | Loving | $5,000 | Golf ball sized hail reported near Loving. |
| September 2021 | Hail | Loving | $5,000 | Large hail was measured south of Loving. |
| October 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Loving | $5,000 | Fences were blown down and the top of an oil storage tank was blown off. |
| April 2008 | Hail | Loving | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Loving | $2,000 | A spotter reported a tornado south of Loving and northeast of Graham. The tornado damaged trees and power lines. |
| June 1997 | Tornado (F1) | Loving | $2,000 | A storm spotter tracked a tornado from East Central Young County into Southwest Jack County. The tornado destroyed trees and power lines. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Loving | $2,000 | no account filed |
| October 2012 | Hail | Loving | $1,000 | Quarter to ping pong ball sized hail fell south of Loving. |
| August 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Loving | $500 | Trees were blown down. |
| February 2017 | Flash Flood | Loving | - | Young County Sheriffs Department reported water flowing across State Highway 16 N near the intersection of Highway 114, and that it would need to be closed soon. |
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Loving | - | Fire and Rescue reported trees and power lines down in Loving, TX. |
| April 2014 | Hail | Loving | - | Amateur radio spotters reported quarter sized hail. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Loving | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Loving | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Loving | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Loving | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Hail | Loving | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Loving | - | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Hail | Loving | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Loving | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Loving | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Loving | - | 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 Loving | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6692596 | 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 1361896. 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.



