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.
Population over time
2 figuresNome 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 588 | |
| 2020 | 469 | -119 (-20%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 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 Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Sour Lake quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Nome quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
22 since 1993Regional 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 burning | 13 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 22 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 20 August 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | 35 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 13 August 2009 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 205 |
| 25 July 1998 | Debris and open burning | 7.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 25 July 1993 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 1 July 2005 | Natural | 145 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 131 |
| 6 June 2012 | Debris and open burning | 35 acres | Livingston Area | WOODVILLE - 9055 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 1999Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 1999 | Tornado (F3) | Nome | 5 hurt, $500,000 | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Tornado (EF1) | Nome | $100,000 | An 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 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nome | $25,000 | no account filed |
| January 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nome | $15,000 | Multiple homes suffered damage from high wind gusts. |
| August 2017 | Flash Flood | Nome | - | Law enforcement reported water over Old Sour Lake Road. |
| March 2016 | Funnel Cloud | Nome | - | Several pictures of a funnel cloud near Nome were taken and posted to social media. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whiskey Ford | 2.6 miles | 11 | |
| China | 4.8 miles | 11 | |
| Westbury | 7.6 miles | 11 | |
| Pine Island | 7.9 miles | 11 | |
| Meeker | 9.4 miles | 11 | |
| Bevil Oaks | 11.4 miles | 12 | |
| Fannett | 11.9 miles | 10 | |
| Galloway | 12.0 miles | 12 |
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 Nome | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q972236 | 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 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.





