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.
Population over time
2 figuresNazareth 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 311 | |
| 2020 | 310 | -1 (-0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Clovis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Clovis quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Nazareth quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Hereford quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 2006Regional 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 burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | PIT FIRE |
| 11 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 65 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | NAZARETH GRASS FIRE FM 168 |
| 10 March 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | TOM WETHINGTON |
| 31 January 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 35 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 1 January 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | DOBMEIR FIRE |
Storms near this place
30 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nazareth | $100,000 | Damaging winds accompanied a rapidly intensifying severe storm near Nazareth. Two grain bins were destroyed northwest of the town. |
| September 2007 | Tornado (EF1) | Nazareth | $75,000 | Local 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 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nazareth | $35,000 | A mobile home was destroyed by thunderstorm wind. |
| June 1999 | Hail | Nazareth | $25,000 | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nazareth | $10,000 | Strong wind uprooted trees and blew the roof off of a building. |
| June 1994 | Hail | Nazareth | $500 | no account filed |
| September 2024 | Tornado (EFU) | Nazareth | - | Local broadcast media relayed a video report of a tornado in an open field approximately four miles north of Nazareth. |
| March 2021 | Tornado (EFU) | Nazareth | - | A storm chaser documented a brief tornado southwest of Nazareth. |
| March 2021 | Tornado (EFU) | Nazareth | - | A storm chaser video revealed a brief tornado southeast of Nazareth over open land. No damage was known. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Nazareth | - | Golf ball size hail was reported in Nazareth. No damage was reported. |
| June 2014 | Flood | Nazareth | - | 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 2008 | Hail | Nazareth | - | Penny size hail accompanied by damaging winds were reported near the intersection of Texas Highways 168 and 1075 north of Nazareth. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Nazareth | - | A National Weather Service cooperative observer reported quarter size hail in Nazareth. |
| June 2004 | Hail | Nazareth | - | Castro County Sheriff's Office reported quarter size hail covered the road 2 miles south of Arney. |
| May 2002 | Tornado (F0) | Nazareth | - | A storm chaser reported a tornado west of Arney. The tornado remained over open country. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Nazareth | - | no account filed |
| February 2005 | Hail | Nazareth | - | no account filed |
| February 2005 | Hail | Nazareth | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Nazareth | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Nazareth | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Nazareth | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Nazareth | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Nazareth | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Nazareth | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Nazareth | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Nazareth | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Nazareth | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Nazareth | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Nazareth | - | no account filed |
| June 1995 | Hail | Nazareth | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Nazareth | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q972224 | The 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.



