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Nome, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Nome-China census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77629. The Survey maps it on the Nome quadrangle. 469 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 46 feet above sea level.

Nome within Jefferson County

Population over time

2 figures

Nome fell from 588 to 469 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
2010588
2020469-119 (-20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

22 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Nome between 1993 and 2012, burning about 585 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 were 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 burning13
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
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
23 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
22 September 1999Debris and open burning30 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 August 1993Arson/incendiarism35 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
13 August 2009Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 205
25 July 1998Debris and open burning7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 July 1993Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
1 July 2005Natural145 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 131
6 June 2012Debris and open burning35 acresLivingston AreaWOODVILLE - 9055

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

6 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nome in 6 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 2 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 flash flood. The reports record 5 injuries. 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
January 1999Tornado (F3)Nome5 hurt, $500,000no account filed
June 2010Tornado (EF1)Nome$100,000An NWS Storm Survey found a low-end EF1 tornado struck the eastern part of Nome. The tornado began southwest of Rodeo Drive in the southeast part of Nome and moved north-northeast, causing minor damage to a rodeo arena. Several outbuildings were then damaged or destroyed on the west side of FM 365 with debris thrown up to 200 yards to the north-northeast. The tornado then entered the Silver Spur Mobile Home Park, where one mobile home had its side sheared off and a nearby RV was flipped over onto a vehicle. The occupants inside were not injured. Another mobile home lost much of its roof, while several other mobile homes suffered various degrees of siding, window, and awning damage. Two homes at the intersection of Kotz Road and FM 365 received roof and siding damage along with broken windows. Crossing FM 365, the tornado then caused minor roof damage and broken windows to several homes on the east side of the highway, and destroyed two barns. 2X4s from one of these barns were carried up to 100 yards to the west and driven several feet into the ground. The tornado crossed Highway 90 just east of the FM 365 intersection with damaged trees and embedded sheet metal noted north of the railroad tracks. Entering open farm fields, the tornado deposited sheet metal from one of the previously destroyed barns up to 1/2 mile north of Highway 90 before it dissipated.||In total, a Red Cross survey found up to 30 homes suffered some degree of damage, and of those 2 were considered destroyed and 3 had major damage. Dozens of trees and power lines were blown down all along the path in all different directions. No injuries were reported. Numerous local residents witnessed the tornado.
February 2001Thunderstorm WindNome$25,000no account filed
January 2023Thunderstorm WindNome$15,000Multiple homes suffered damage from high wind gusts.
August 2017Flash FloodNome-Law enforcement reported water over Old Sour Lake Road.
March 2016Funnel CloudNome-Several pictures of a funnel cloud near Nome were taken and posted to social media.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Whiskey Ford2.6 miles11
China4.8 miles11
Westbury7.6 miles11
Pine Island7.9 miles11
Meeker9.4 miles11
Bevil Oaks11.4 miles12
Fannett11.9 miles10
Galloway12.0 miles12

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 NomeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q972236The 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 1342653. 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.