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$120,183
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Loma, CO - History
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Welcome to the Loma Home page. The Loma Home page provides as much information as possible on Loma. Knowing Loma’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Loma’s Home page, you will also find Loma’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Loma has a population of 1571. 49.1% of Loma’s inhabitants are Male, and 50.9 are female. 44.3% of Loma is married and 73.1% own their own home. Household median income in Loma is $120,183, and the individual median income is $38,445. Loma’s Ethnic is the following: White(95.2%), Hispanic(17.8%), Native(4.4%), Multiple(0.4%).
The name "Loma" is derived from a Spanish word meaning "small hill".The area was first inhabited by the Ute people, who had left by 1881.In 1882, the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad completed a narrow-gauge railroad through Loma. A standard-gauge track was installed in 1890.Homesteaders began arriving in Loma in the late 1880s.
Agriculture became a dominant feature in Loma's early economy, enabled by the completion of the Kiefer Extension irrigation canal in 1899. The railway provided easy shipment of crops and livestock to larger cities like Denver and Salt Lake City.The first school was established in the 1890s, and the two-story Loma School was constructed in 1910 from yellow brick, fired on the grounds.
The brick school remained in use until 1982, when Loma Elementary School opened.In 1901, the Colorado Sugar Company opened 1,000 acres (400 ha) of land near Loma to settlers. Sugar beets were a primary crop, and beet production dominated Loma's agriculture until the 1970s, when the Delta Sugar Beet factory closed.
Potatoes were also grown by Loma farmers.The Loma post office opened in 1905, and has continued in operation since.In 1910, the church now known as Loma Community Church was built. It has often been referred to as "The Church That Stayed". Virginia Donoho produced a 15,000 word history of the church by that same name in the early 1980s.
In 1965 the building added indoor plumbing, a fellowship hall, a kitchen, and two bathrooms. In the late 1970s a small addition was built. Verner Zevola Reed, known as "The Colorado Millionaire"", opened the Golden Hills ranch on 1,200 acres (490 ha) of land he had purchased 2 mi (3.2 km) north of Loma in 1907.
Reed intended on growing apples, and installed an underground irrigation system to water his orchards. In 1911, the Loma Canning and Preserving Company opened a canning factory in Loma to process the anticipated harvests. The endeavor was not a success, and the factory closed a few years later without ever reaching its capacity.
Reed sold the Golden Hills Ranch in 1923.A second irrigation canal called the Highline Canal was built through Loma in 1917, and led to significant economic growth and several bumper crops during the 1920s.By 1923, Loma had a school, blacksmith, garage, railroad station, school, two-story hotel, shipping yard, post office, pool hall, two churches, two grocery stores, and many two-story homes.During the Depression, the federal government relocated 32 families from the Dust Bowl to Loma.A "reading room" was established in Loma in 1936 as part of an effort to provide rural citizens in Mesa County with free public library service.
In 1938, the Loma Community Hall was erected, and was used for community meetings and social events. The hall was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.A uranium mine and mill were built near Loma in the 1940s. Small settlements such as Loma with uranium mines were called "yellowcake towns" because the uranium oxide they produced resembled cake mix.In the 1950s, a pipeline was constructed along an abandoned Uintah Railway track to carry a mixture of crushed gilsonite ore and water from Bonanza, Utah, to Loma.
The American Gilsonite Company owned the slurry line and built a plant in Loma, where the gilsonite was refined into gasoline, "gilsapave" paving tar, and briquettes used for aluminum refining. The plant was later purchased by Gary Refining.In July 2015, the Colorado Department of Transportation installed Loma's first signal light at the intersection of Highway 139 and Route 6.Country Jam is a country music and camping festival in nearby Mack that has taken place since 1992.
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