Loving County, Texas

Must have been a population boom recently. I just searched Google (and you know you can trust Google) and it shows a population of only 67.

> Must have been a population boom recently. I just searched Google (and you know you can trust Google) and it shows a population of only 67.

Damn illegal immigrants have over run the place and caused the population to spike 22.04%.

That was mentioned in the article I read.

They have a pretty good per capita income because just about everyone works for the county. Their insurance rates were a little lopsided because anytime anyone driving through had a wreck the statistics took a hit as far as accidents per thousand residents.

I was a little disappointed that the cafe closed down. At least they have a store with snacks. Last time I went through Orla, the little store there was closed. But, there's no money to be made out here and nothing going on, so y'all stay in your own states.

Here's one, the City of Vernon, CA has a residential population of 91. Most of the residents are city employees. It is located just 5 miles south of Downtown LA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon,_California

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industry,_California

The population of Cottage Grove, TN is 97, and it's out in the middle of nowhere. I had heard of small towns before, but never such a small county.

Back in the 70's it was not uncommon to be staking in Loving County, either a new well of a pipeline or 2.

I recently went that way on a trip to Ruidosa, NM, and from what you could see from the highway, it was pretty deserted.

I do remember that Loving County had the biggest rattlesnakes any of us had ever seen.

My cousin Greg Shoults will attest to that.

Randy

Randy

Y'all have those little old Western Diamondbacks. Come to Georgia and we'll show you a REAL rattlesnake (GRIN). The largest I've ever seen was a little over seven feet but a surveyor I know had a skin that almost completely covered a 4X8 sheet of plywood.

Andy

Andy

I was working on a pipeline in Laredo in the early 90's during the summer and the dozer man killed a 9' one.

Remember, EVERYTHING is bigger in Texas.

🙂

Kris

EXCEPT the egos, right.:-P

Andy

Tommy-

Probably well as there are so few to argue with !

Cheers

Derek

Andy

😉

Surprising some certain type of entrepreneur hasn't moved into that county to take advantage of the county name in his mail order business........;-)

Quite well actually. Not a Yankee, an Easterner or a Left Coaster to be seen for miles.

Randy

This is how we grow'em in Georgia. 😉

Randy

That's a nice 'un. I remember my grandparents (who lived on a small ranch between Laredo and Cotulla, Texas)having a picture from a Laredo newspaper (circa 1960) that showed a man standing on the bumber of a Chevy Pickup with his arm outstretched upward and holding the tail of a rattler, with the head and about 2 feet lying on the ground. The newspaper said it was 12 feet long.

Things really are bigger here.

Traveling man stopped in a small town in west Texas at the only gas station in town and asked the attendant where a good hotel was.

The attendant thought about it, then replied, "Take this street north to the first intersection, hang left, then go about 40 miles..it's on the right."

The traveler asked, "Won't that take me to the next town?"

The attendant's reply, "Dam right...we don't like strangers around here.";-)