Loma, Mesa County, Colorado 39.19581 -108.81316 Mesa Colorado USA http://www.geonames.org/5429120/loma.html GeoNames link for Loma, Colorado https://mesa.marmot.org/Record/.b10518988?searchId=164408155&recordIndex=1&page=1 Where is Loma? by Viriginia Donoho According to the book Where is Loma? by Virginia Donoho, settlers came to the area as early as 1879, with more arriving after the forced removal of the Ute people in 1881. George Cecil Harper, who was born in Loma in 1911, recalls that the town was home to a lumber yard, a canning factory, three churches, a hotel, a pool hall, and the Bird Mercantile when he was a child. According to Howard Shults, whose father auctioned off Verner Reed’s land holdings (the Golden Hills Ranch), development in Loma took off after the sale of Reed’s land in the 1920’s. Prior to that time, Reed had attempted to change the character of the land by planting hardwood trees and by developing water resources with flumes and pipes. According to Shults, who also farmed land in the area, potatoes and then beans were important early crops. Gertrude Rader recounts that when she moved to Loma around 1920, the town had two churches, a Methodist Church and a Presbyterian Church, and that both were well attended. The town had three stores by 1921. A sugar beet office run by Mark Wolf was located in town, and the sugar beet company owned much of the land in the area. The town was apparently settled in three groups, with the first coming with the railroad and another with the canals. yes yes