Loomis (formerly, Pine, Pino, Smithville, and Placer) is an incorporated town in Placer County, California, United States. It is portion of the Sacramento–Arden-Arcade–Roseville Metropolitan Statistical Area. The town’s population was reported as 6,836 in the 2020 United States Census. It shares borders subsequent to the city of Rocklin and the Census-Designated Places Penryn and Granite Bay.

The Placer say office opened on the site in 1861, changed its pronounce to Smithville in 1862, then misused it to Pino in 1869, and in 1890 the Southern Pacific Railroad finally decided on Loomis. The railroad and Post Office found that Pino was mortified with the town of Reno, hence the name modify to Loomis. The publicize Smithville honors L.G. Smith, who was one of the town’s most prominent leaders.

Loomis takes its read out from one of the town’s pioneers, James Loomis. At one time, James Loomis was the amass town—saloon keeper, railroad agent, express agent, and postmaster.
In the to the front part of the 20th century, Loomis was the second largest fruit-shipping station in Placer County, Newcastle California, just 6 mi (9.7 km) east of Loomis, was considered the largest.

Loomis remained portion of unincorporated Placer County until December 17, 1984, when the Town of Loomis officially incorporated. The Town was in misfortune of mammal annexed by its neighbor Rocklin and the residents voted to incorporate to maintain local control, partly on the matter of preserving the “small town” character and historic structures such as the High Hand and Blue Goose fruit packing sheds which sit in the middle of Taylor Road (a segment of historic Highway 40) and the Union Pacific Railroad tracks.