Posted on 02/09/2023 6:51:45 PM PST by ValleyofHope
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Loving County, TX. An exploration of the least populated county in the US
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It has been awhile but there ain’t much out there but scrub and oil wells. My wife claimed that the bathroom in either Orla or Mentone (there are only two towns) was the filthiest she had ever seen. The trivia about Loving County is that it has the highest per capita of millionaires.
Revival? What r u suggesting? All of us move there and gentrify the place? Gays did it in the Castro(sf) and Palm Springs. I prefer the company of women.
C’mon, man. Wrong poster.
There are several thousand people who work the oil fields in Loving County each day but they drive somewhere else. It is one of the highest producing counties in the USA right now.
Way to go…they just targeted them for hordes of illegals the feds will now be shipping them.
Loving County, helping America’s oil production of 12 million barrels a day.
I like it.
Texan here. I’ve been aware of the Loving County’s sparse population for quite a while - decades. But I had no idea it was breaking this record on a national scale.
I’d say it’s because Texas counties tend to be so small on average, compared to the county geographical sizes in other states. Smaller counties can tend to have smaller populations, and in sparsely populated regions, these small numbers are amplified.
Sometimes I have a hankering for that kind of place.
It is 3/5’s the size of Rhode Island. That makes it a going-concern. They have two commie senators.
Go with Borden County to the east. Just as few people, much fewer oil wells, and much more scenic.
Population 631 (1/7 of the population of the town I live in now) and named for the guy who invented condensed milk. I like it!
LOL....our Senators, cRuz and Cornball, are BOTH commies?
I thought a place in New Hampshire had like 5 people and they make a huge deal about being first to vote at midnight.
Yeah but that’s just a voting precinct. This is a whole county.
A friend and I had finished a long and difficult cement job one night. North of Mentone on the East side of the Pecos river was known as blowout alley. Liner cement jobs were hard to place successfully. We had done ours well but had been up for hours, like days of hours with only cat naps.
We went to town on the off chance we might get something to eat as the trailer was out of groceries. The place was still open, just barely, only one dim light shone through the dusty windows. A grizzled old guy behind the counter greeted us somewhat bitterly, we were young then. He asked what we wanted.
Food would be a good start I said. What do you have?
Don’ t know for sure, we ain’t been to Odessa in over a week. Ma! What we got back there to fix for these boys?
Ma produced a couple of nice T-bone steaks. Steak, fries and a beer were sure good and the old guy softened to interesting conversation about Mentone, boom and bust. A very hard place to live.
Back in those days Halliburton arrived in beat up dirty red trucks with equally dirty coveralls with 2# sledge hammers in their hip pockets to knock up chicksan joints. Two or three of them would arrive early and wait in their truck eating Vienna sausage, sardines and crackers. Generally a rough looking but friendly competent lot. They had character.
Dowell, pre Schlumberger, would arrive in force all clean in white pickups as a caravan. Pretty standard.
Both did well but were a sharp contrast. Always interesting to me.
That was now nearly 50 years ago and ones of thousands of simple but unique oilfield memories. Great life.
Driven through it.
It is hot, dry, desolate, and and empty.
The post office is about the same size as mine.
Interesting
I spent 3 years in Midland working for
Jim Hall Racing .
Moved to Indy after that Texas adventure.
Scrub brush, Oil Jacks and barbed wire
is all I remember.
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