Editing Lometa, Texas (section)

==Events==
The annual festivals in Lometa are a spring Diamondback Jubilee,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Diamondback Jubilee |url=https://www.lometalionsclub.org/jubilee-2020 |access-date=2023-05-23 |website=Lometa Lions Club |language=en}}</ref> an annual livestock show, and a summer junior rodeo.

Lometa has one traffic light, a recent improvement as of 2003 from the original four-way stop, in the middle of town. On the edge of town is a municipal park with camping sites and a rodeo arena and grounds.

Lometa was a {{convert|200|acre|km2|adj=on}} site platted May 17, 1886, as a railroad stop.  The town was rapidly transferred out of the nearby stagecoach stop of Senterfitt. The town had originally been called Montvale, but a change was made in 1886 when an application for a post office was made.

By 1890, the population included 150 Lometans, and four years later, the town got its first newspaper. Another weekly paper was published in 1896, and a third by 1900.