Loma Linda Texas Map

About Loma Linda, Texas

Loma Linda is a locality in San Patricio County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 149. The population density is 45.9 people per km². Loma Linda is located at 28.0070°N, 97.4994°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 78387.

Loma Linda exists as a quiet accumulation of flat, sun-bleached earth where the horizon stretches thin and taut against a sky of unrelenting, pale blue. It lies 14.0 miles northwest of Portland, TX (from Portland, TX: bearing 310°T), and is situated 2.1 miles south-southeast of Sinton. The landscape around Loma Linda is defined by the scrubby resilience of mesquite and the dry, cracked veins of the soil, which hold the heat long after the sun has begun its slow descent. Chiltipin Creek meanders through the brush three miles away, its path marked by a deeper shade of green and the occasional stillness of water that seems to hold its breath against the encroaching dust. Two miles to the north, the modest grounds of Speck Aiken Park provide a meager relief of shade, a place where the wind catches the dry grass and carries the scent of baked clay and dormant weeds across the open plains.

Economic activity in Loma Linda is tethered to the slow, deliberate work of the land, where the rhythms of the day are governed by the harsh necessity of irrigation and the persistent maintenance of fence lines. The town maintains a stoic character, shaped by generations who have learned to parse the subtle shifts in the weather and the demands of the surrounding fields. While the distant silhouette of Chalk Hill occasionally haunts the western edge of the sky, the people of Loma Linda remain focused on the immediate, tangible realities of their work. Life here unfolds with a heavy, honest weight, characterized by a silence that is never truly empty, but rather filled with the low hum of distant engines and the dry, rasping song of insects that thrive in the heat.

About This Loma Linda Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Loma Linda, Texas. Coordinates: 28.007, -97.4994. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Loma Linda includes the ZIP code (78387), telephone area code (830), county seat of San Patricio County (Sinton), and school district assignment (Sinton Independent School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.