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Nordheim, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Yorktown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78141. The Survey maps it on the Yorktown West quadrangle. 336 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 404 feet above sea level.

Nordheim within DeWitt County

Population over time

2 figures

Nordheim grew from 307 to 336 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
2010307
2020336+29 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

9 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Nordheim between 2006 and 2019, burning about 172 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
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning3

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
2 September 2017Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
25 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBLACKWELL RANCH
14 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMARON ROAD BRIDGE
28 June 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 72 WEST GRASS FIRE
2 June 2018Equipment and vehicle use30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGLENN MUELLER
7 May 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceARDEN SEILER
2 November 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceREMMERS ROAD GRASS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeWitt County

Storms near this place

9 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nordheim in 9 storm reports between 2002 and 2026: 4 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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
May 2002Thunderstorm WindNordheim$80,000Severe thunderstorm winds blew the roof off a barn and knocked down trees on a farm just northwest of Nordheim.
February 2026Thunderstorm WindNordheim$2,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph that broke some 6-9 inch diameter tree branches near the intersection of Cabeza Rd. and Edmund Mueller northwest of Nordheim.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindNordheim-A thunderstorm produced a wind gust measured at 65 mph by a spotter in Nordheim.
March 2012Funnel CloudNordheim-A law enforcement officer spotted a funnel cloud near Meyersville.
April 2007Flash FloodNordheim-Thunderstorms produced general 1 to 2 inch rainfall over Karnes and DeWitt Counties. Yorktown received up to 4 inches and the resulting flash flooding closed FM119 and SH72.
July 2007Flash FloodNordheim-Thunderstorms over Gonzales, Lavaca and DeWitt Counties produced general 3 to 4 inch totals, with up to 5 inches along the Goliad County line. Flash flooding closed SH119 and US183.
July 2007Flash FloodNordheim-Widespread 2 to 3 inch rain amounts fell in Wilson, Gonzales, DeWitt, Karnes and Lavaca Counties, with up to 5 inches near Nordheim. Many county roads in DeWitt County were closed, including SH72 and SH119 between Nordheim and Yorktown.
July 2006Flash FloodNordheim-Late evening thunderstorms from Karnes County into western DeWitt County produced a widespread 1 inch rainfall with highest totals near 3 inches in the area around Coy City and also near Yorktown. SH119, SH72, and FM240 were closed through the late night period due to flash flooding.
May 2002HailNordheim-no account filed

Every storm recorded in DeWitt 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
Cotton Patch4.4 miles8
Yorktown7.0 miles8
Garfield8.7 miles11
New Davy9.3 miles10
Gruenau10.6 miles10
Old Davy11.3 miles11
Kubala Store12.0 miles10
Upper Meyersville14.0 miles7

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 NordheimAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981734The 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 1377604. 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.