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Mentone, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Mentone census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79754. The Survey maps it on the Mentone quadrangle. 22 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,684 feet above sea level.

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Mentone within Loving County

On record in Mentone

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

2 figures

Mentone grew from 19 to 22 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
201019
202022+3 (+16%)

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

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Mentone in 2015, burning about 3 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
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
11 April 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR300

Every fire recorded in Loving County

Storms near this place

54 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mentone in 54 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 35 hail, 8 flash flood, 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado. The reports record 3 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 2005Thunderstorm WindMentone3 hurt, $500,000Destructive winds estimated to be 80 mph affected portions of Loving County. Twenty-six power poles were blown down along a five mile stretch of Highway 302 west of the Loving and Winkler County line. This resulted in widespread power outages. Three oil field workers were injured when their trailers were destroyed by the winds.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindMentone$480,000A thunderstorm moved across Loving County and produced wind damage. There were 30 power poles that were broken and blown down seven miles north of Mentone. The cost of damage is a very rough estimate.
April 1999Tornado (F2)Mentone$20,000The Reeves County tornado crossed the Pecos River and headed north across open country. Soon after it crossed the river, the tornado hit some oil field supplies and caused some damage. The only oil pumpjack in the path was overturned. Engineers at a pumpjack manufacturer estimated winds in the range of 110-130 mph to knock over this large piece of equipment. Vegetation mainly consisted of brush less than 4 feet tall with disturbances ranging from snapped or flattened to bent more than 45 degrees. The small foliage on these plants was generally still present, but wind-torn.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindMentone$12,000A thunderstorm in Claudette's outer convective band resulted in damaging winds near Mentone. A porch was blown off of a mobile home, and a power pole was blown down.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindMentone$5,000Severe thunderstorm winds blew the roof off of a large barn northeast of Mentone.
September 2014Flash FloodMentone$2,000Heavy rain moved across Loving County and produced flash flooding in Mentone. Eight to ten men were stranded on oil field equipment due to high water in town. The cost of damage is a very rough estimate.
October 1997Thunderstorm WindMentone$2,000Downbursting winds knocked down two utility poles in Mentone.
September 2014Flash FloodMentone$1,000Heavy rain fell across Loving County and produced flash flooding in Mentone and along the Pecos River. State Highway 302 was reported to be closed in Loving County. The Pecos River was reported to be flooded 16 inches deep over State Highway 302 a half a mile on either side of the river near Mentone. The cost of damage is a very rough estimate.
September 2014Flash FloodMentone$500Heavy rain fell across Loving County and produced flash flooding near Mentone. There was water flowing eight inches over State Highway 302. The cost of damage is a very rough estimate.
September 2014Flash FloodMentone$300Heavy rain fell across Loving County and produced flash flooding. An oil tanker was reported to be stranded on Farm to Market Road 300. The cost of damage is a very rough estimate.
April 2025HailMentone-Quarter-sized hail reported on State Highway 302 per spotter network. Time is estimated from radar.
June 2025HailMentone-Quarter-size hail was reported by the public in rural Loving County. The time of occurrence is estimated from radar.
May 2024HailMentone-Lots of hail on the ground, and some may be larger. Picture from public Facebook photo.
July 2023HailMentone-A trained spotter observed quarter to half dollar size hail in Mentone.
March 2020Tornado (EFU)Mentone-A thunderstorm in Reeves County produced a tornado about eight miles west of Mentone. A National Weather Service survey team was unable to locate damage directly caused by the tornado due to poor road networks. Photos provided by the public and emergency management suggested that the tornado was significant, however due to a lack of damage indicators, the survey team was unable to determine a path and intensity. Thus, the tornado was rated an EF-U. It was estimated that the tornado traveled roughly 12 miles before lifting from storm spotter reports and radar signatures. The tornado started in Reeves County and moved east into Loving County. It lifted before reaching Highway 302 and moved just north of Mentone.
April 2012HailMentone-A storm moved over Loving County and produced three to four inch hail six miles east of Orla. Wind gusts were up to 70 to 75 mph.
April 2012HailMentone-A thunderstorm moved over Loving County and produced four inch hail and wind gusts of 70 to 80 mph two miles west of Mentone.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindMentone-No damage was reported.
March 2007HailMentone-Marble to golfball size hail fell northwest of Mentone.
June 2007Tornado (EF0)Mentone-A tornado formed over open country north of Mentone. No damage occurred.
March 2005HailMentone-At 18:53 CST, the Loving County Emergency Manager reported half dollar size hail in Mentone. The swath of large hail and its parent severe thunderstorm continued east across southern Loving County. By 19:30 CST, local officials reported penny size hail that covered Interstate 20 fifteen miles east-northeast of Mentone. The accumulating hail resulted in slick driving conditions along the interstate.
June 2005HailMentone-A rancher in northern Loving County reported very large hail ranging in size from golfballs to tennis balls along Farm to Market Road 652.
June 2005HailMentone-A left-moving supercell produced large hail along a swath from Mentone to near the Texas and New Mexico border in northern Loving County. Initial reports indicated penny size hail in Mentone and just east of the city along Texas Highway 302. A rancher reported golfball size hail fell in rural areas of the county before the storm moved over the state line. No damage was reported.
August 2005Flash FloodMentone-A National Weather Service trained spotter reported water flowing over portions of Farm to Market Road 652 in northern Loving County. The public also reported high water threatening homes on the Loving County, Texas/Lea County, New Mexico county line.
June 2005HailMentone-Penny size hail was reported by the public along Farm to Market Road 652 north of Mentone.
June 2005HailMentone-The public reported nickel size hail just east of Red Bluff Lake.
September 2004Flash FloodMentone-Several public reports indicated flash flooding across western Loving County. At 11:00 CST, at least one foot of water was reported flowing over Farm to Market Road 652 in the northwestern parts of the county. Additional flooding was reported at 11:45 CST along County Road 300 one mile north of Mentone, where flowing water up to one foot deep crossed the road.
October 2004HailMentone-A storm spotter in Mentone reported penny to nickel size hail.
October 2004HailMentone-A storm spotter reported pea to penny size hail northwest of Mentone.
June 2000Flash FloodMentone-The general public reported water over the road on State Highway 302 east of Mentone.
May 1999Tornado (F0)Mentone-Brief tornado in open country north of Mentone.
May 1999HailMentone-Vegetation stripped along State Highway 302.
May 2021HailMentone-no account filed
May 2021HailMentone-no account filed
March 2019HailMentone-no account filed
June 2019HailMentone-no account filed
June 2019HailMentone-no account filed
May 2018HailMentone-no account filed
April 2015HailMentone-no account filed
May 2015HailMentone-no account filed
October 2015HailMentone-no account filed
June 2014HailMentone-no account filed
June 2013HailMentone-no account filed
May 2010HailMentone-no account filed
July 2009Flash FloodMentone-no account filed
May 2007HailMentone-no account filed
May 2007HailMentone-no account filed
June 2003HailMentone-no account filed
April 2002HailMentone-no account filed
April 2002HailMentone-no account filed
September 2002Thunderstorm WindMentone-no account filed
May 1999HailMentone-no account filed
May 1999HailMentone-no account filed
May 1994HailMentone-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Loving County

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 MentoneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q980971The 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 1362622. 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.