- It is not clear whether this NRCA is named after the community of Loomis, Washington or perhaps the namesake of the community itself: a storekeeper named J. A. Loomis. There are also a few roads named after Loomis.
- Loomis Natural Resources Conservation Area (dnr.wa.gov)
The Loomis Natural Resources Conservation Area consists of a north block and a south block totaling 24,672 acres. The mountainous landscape ranges from 4,400 to more than 7,800 feet in elevation, including two mountain peaks in the north block - Disappointment Peak (7,146 feet) and Snowshoe Mountain (7,823 feet). Its location in the eastern side of the Cascade Mountain Range results in a relatively dry climate, with cold snowy winters and hot dry summers with frequent lightning storms.
- Decapolis (Wikipedia)
The Decapolis (Greek: Δεκάπολις, Dekápolis, ‘Ten Cities’) was a group of ten Greek Hellenistic cities on the eastern frontier of the Greek and late Roman Empire in the Southern Levant in the first centuries BC and AD. Most of the cities were located to the east of the Jordan Rift Valley, between Judaea, Iturea, Nabataea, and Syria.