LOMA ALTA, TX (VAL VERDE COUNTY)
LOMA ALTA, TEXAS (Val Verde County). Loma Alta is on U.S. Highway 277 between Open Hollow and Miers Draw, 2½ miles southwest of Vinegarone in east central Val Verde County. It was founded by the Davis family, who moved to the area in February 1906; the Davis brothers, Ray, Lin, and Emery, took up ranchland in the area and raised families there. Loma Alta stands at an altitude of 2,007 feet above sea level; its name is Spanish for "high hill" or "knoll." In the 1970s Loma Alta served the ranching community and tourists with a gas station and a store. In 2000 the population was thirty.
Whitehead Memorial Museum et al., La Hacienda (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1976).
The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this article.Julia Cauble Smith, "LOMA ALTA, TX (VAL VERDE COUNTY)," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hnl38), accessed September 22, 2014. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.