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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.

Loving within Young County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

124 since 2005

Regional 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 use47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Debris and open burning19
Power generation/transmission/distribution15
Natural8
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1

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
9 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service16 N
9 September 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBURDICK
30 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGAHAGAN PIPE LINE
25 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceORR LEASE
22 September 2011Natural10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceORR
22 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
14 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service114 W JERMYN
13 September 2011Natural100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFARMER FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Young County

Storms near this place

26 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2020HailLoving$50,000Golf ball to baseball sized hail was reported by broadcast media and trained spotters in the city of Loving, TX.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindLoving$13,000Emergency 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 2025HailLoving$7,000A person on Facebook reported golf ball sized hail in Loving.
June 2011HailLoving$7,000no account filed
May 2024HailLoving$5,000Golf ball sized hail reported near Loving.
September 2021HailLoving$5,000Large hail was measured south of Loving.
October 1999Thunderstorm WindLoving$5,000Fences were blown down and the top of an oil storage tank was blown off.
April 2008HailLoving$5,000no account filed
June 1997Tornado (F0)Loving$2,000A spotter reported a tornado south of Loving and northeast of Graham. The tornado damaged trees and power lines.
June 1997Tornado (F1)Loving$2,000A storm spotter tracked a tornado from East Central Young County into Southwest Jack County. The tornado destroyed trees and power lines.
June 2012HailLoving$2,000no account filed
October 2012HailLoving$1,000Quarter to ping pong ball sized hail fell south of Loving.
August 1999Thunderstorm WindLoving$500Trees were blown down.
February 2017Flash FloodLoving-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 2015Thunderstorm WindLoving-Fire and Rescue reported trees and power lines down in Loving, TX.
April 2014HailLoving-Amateur radio spotters reported quarter sized hail.
June 2012HailLoving-no account filed
April 2011HailLoving-no account filed
June 2005HailLoving-no account filed
June 2001HailLoving-no account filed
April 2000HailLoving-no account filed
June 1997HailLoving-no account filed
April 1997HailLoving-no account filed
April 1996HailLoving-no account filed
April 1996HailLoving-no account filed
May 1995HailLoving-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Young 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
Red Top4.1 miles10
Jean6.0 miles8
Farmer6.1 miles8
Markley7.3 miles8
Twin Mountains11.3 miles11
True11.6 miles8
Graham11.6 miles11
Newcastle13.0 miles10

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 LovingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6692596The 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.