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Place Name
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Loving County
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Place Status (Type)
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county
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Capital is
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Mentone
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Population
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107 (1990)
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Location
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Texas, United States, North America
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Latitude
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31°50'N
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Longitude
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103°34'W
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Loving
, county (
676 sq mi/1,751 sq km; 1990 pop.
107), W Texas;  Mentone; 31°50'N 103°34'W. High rolling
prairies; bordered N by N.Mex. state line, SW by Pecos R. Elev.
c.2,500 ft/762 m-3,400 ft/1,036 m.
Some cattle ranching. Oil and natural gas. Red Bluff L.
(Pecos R.), used for irrigation and recreation on co. line in NW.
Smallest co. (in terms of pop.) in Texas. Formed 1887.
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