Loving, TX

Loving is an unincorporated community and census designated place in Young County, Texas, United States. The 2020 census counted 143 residents. Loving lies on State Highway 114 eighteen miles southeast of Olney in the northeastern part of the county. Loving was founded in 1907 on land that was part of the Lost Valley Loving Ranch, owned by Oliver Loving who was the grandson of the famous cattle drover, Oliver Loving. A newcomer can read Loving through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Loving comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. The town was moved approximately one mile to the north in 1909 in order to be along the Gulf, Texas and Western Railroad.