Antonio de Espejo traveled in the area in 1583, and crossed the Pecos River.

He created a camp in 1855, and conducted three drilling attempts, but only found water once and was unable to access it.

Andrew A. Humphreys ordered Pope to end his drilling and abandon the camp on July 10, 1858.

[5][6][7] Oliver Loving, after whom the county was named, and Charles Goodnight drove cattle through the area in 1866, creating the Goodnight–Loving Trail.

Eleven people in the area, including Clay Allison, petitioned to the 19th session of the Texas Legislature to become a part of Reeves County.

Accusations of illegal county organization arose, which were investigated by H. C. Withers and A. H. Randolph.

[5][7] In December 1896, Hunter traveled to Pecos, Texas, but went missing with his horses either dying from starvation or being unaccounted for.

She filed a lawsuit and won in the first case and in the appeal made by the company to the Supreme Court of the United States.

Hunter was found living in Birmingham, Alabama, under the name of Al Hunt in 1902.

[5][7] The county has no cemetery, and the only grave in the area is for Shady Davis, a 21-year-old cowboy who was killed by his horse and buried 12 miles from Mentone in the 1920s.

[9][10] The population in the area increased following the discovery of oil, and led to the creation of the town of Ramsey.

Earlier in August, a nonresident male at a man camp was confirmed to have contracted it.

The terrain of Loving County is described as flat desert, with a few low hills.

Desert shrubs, range grasses, and cacti abound, with salt cedars along the river.

Owing partly to its small and dispersed population, it had the highest median per capita and household incomes of any county in Texas.

Ten households are made up of individuals and 2 consist of someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older.

[5] Following the disestablishment of Mentone in 1897, no settlements were in the county until the creation of Juanita in 1910, which was renamed to Porterville.

[25] The top elected official of Loving County, Judge Skeet Jones, and three other individuals were arrested in 2022 for stealing livestock.

[26] In 2022, Sheriff Chris Busse reported that a ranch with 11 registered voters, including county commissioner Ysidro Renteria, had no inhabitants since 2008.

[27] Loving was one of only four counties in Texas to give a plurality of the vote to independent presidential candidate Ross Perot in 1992.

[31][9] The county is zoned to Wink-Loving Independent School District and Odessa College.

[32][33] "Loving County" is the name of a song written and performed by Charlie Robison.

[34] In the novel Echo Burning by Lee Child, Jack Reacher passes through Loving County.