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Nazareth, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Dimmitt census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79063. The Survey maps it on the Nazareth quadrangle. 310 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,760 feet above sea level.

Nazareth within Castro County

Population over time

2 figures

Nazareth fell from 311 to 310 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010311
2020310-1 (-0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

5 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Nazareth between 2006 and 2011, burning about 103 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePIT FIRE
11 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined65 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceNAZARETH GRASS FIRE FM 168
10 March 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTOM WETHINGTON
31 January 2006Equipment and vehicle use35 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
1 January 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDOBMEIR FIRE

Every fire recorded in Castro County

Storms near this place

30 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nazareth in 30 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 21 hail, 5 tornado, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2007Thunderstorm WindNazareth$100,000Damaging winds accompanied a rapidly intensifying severe storm near Nazareth. Two grain bins were destroyed northwest of the town.
September 2007Tornado (EF1)Nazareth$75,000Local officials reported that an apparent tornado severely damaged two barns on a farmstead east-northeast of Nazareth. Doppler radar signatures additionally supported the potential for tornadic activity, as the storm that initially produced damaging winds northwest of Nazareth evolved to display a supercell structure and sharply turned its direction of movement towards the southeast.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindNazareth$35,000A mobile home was destroyed by thunderstorm wind.
June 1999HailNazareth$25,000no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindNazareth$10,000Strong wind uprooted trees and blew the roof off of a building.
June 1994HailNazareth$500no account filed
September 2024Tornado (EFU)Nazareth-Local broadcast media relayed a video report of a tornado in an open field approximately four miles north of Nazareth.
March 2021Tornado (EFU)Nazareth-A storm chaser documented a brief tornado southwest of Nazareth.
March 2021Tornado (EFU)Nazareth-A storm chaser video revealed a brief tornado southeast of Nazareth over open land. No damage was known.
April 2017HailNazareth-Golf ball size hail was reported in Nazareth. No damage was reported.
June 2014FloodNazareth-A NWS Cooperative observer reported streets in Hart were covered by several inches of water. NWS radar indicated nearly four inches of rain fell between Hart and Nazareth.
May 2008HailNazareth-Penny size hail accompanied by damaging winds were reported near the intersection of Texas Highways 168 and 1075 north of Nazareth.
May 2006HailNazareth-A National Weather Service cooperative observer reported quarter size hail in Nazareth.
June 2004HailNazareth-Castro County Sheriff's Office reported quarter size hail covered the road 2 miles south of Arney.
May 2002Tornado (F0)Nazareth-A storm chaser reported a tornado west of Arney. The tornado remained over open country.
June 2010HailNazareth-no account filed
February 2005HailNazareth-no account filed
February 2005HailNazareth-no account filed
April 2005HailNazareth-no account filed
May 2005HailNazareth-no account filed
May 2005HailNazareth-no account filed
May 2005HailNazareth-no account filed
May 2005HailNazareth-no account filed
June 2004HailNazareth-no account filed
May 2001HailNazareth-no account filed
May 2001HailNazareth-no account filed
May 1999HailNazareth-no account filed
June 1995HailNazareth-no account filed
May 1995HailNazareth-no account filed
June 1995HailNazareth-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Castro County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Roy8.0 miles9
Mulkey8.0 miles9
Arney9.9 miles9
Hart11.0 miles8
Dimmitt11.1 miles9
Hilburn12.3 miles9
Jumbo14.6 miles9
Easter17.1 miles8

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on NazarethAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q972224The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1363617. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.