WILD: Loon Launching Loving Lasso Lacks Legitimacy, Lands Litigation.

Loving County is not only the least populated county in Texas, but with 64 official inhabitants as of the 2020 census, it’s also the least populated county in the entire nation. (Kalawao County, Hawaii, on an island that was formerly a leper colony, comes in second.) Flat desert land up along the New Mexico border, Loving doesn’t have much to recommend it except splendid isolation.

And oil.

It’s that last little bit, Loving’s notable oil wealth, that probably inspired a carpetbagger gadfly from Indiana to try to take over Loving County.

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