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.
Population over time
2 figuresNordheim 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 307 | |
| 2020 | 336 | +29 (+9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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.
- 1953 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Beeville quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Yorktown West quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Goliad quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
9 since 2006Regional 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 use | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 25 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BLACKWELL RANCH |
| 14 August 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 24 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MARON ROAD BRIDGE |
| 28 June 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 72 WEST GRASS FIRE |
| 2 June 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GLENN MUELLER |
| 7 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ARDEN SEILER |
| 2 November 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | REMMERS ROAD GRASS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 2002Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nordheim | $80,000 | Severe thunderstorm winds blew the roof off a barn and knocked down trees on a farm just northwest of Nordheim. |
| February 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nordheim | $2,000 | A 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 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nordheim | - | A thunderstorm produced a wind gust measured at 65 mph by a spotter in Nordheim. |
| March 2012 | Funnel Cloud | Nordheim | - | A law enforcement officer spotted a funnel cloud near Meyersville. |
| April 2007 | Flash Flood | Nordheim | - | 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 2007 | Flash Flood | Nordheim | - | 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 2007 | Flash Flood | Nordheim | - | 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 2006 | Flash Flood | Nordheim | - | 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 2002 | Hail | Nordheim | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cotton Patch | 4.4 miles | 8 | |
| Yorktown | 7.0 miles | 8 | |
| Garfield | 8.7 miles | 11 | |
| New Davy | 9.3 miles | 10 | |
| Gruenau | 10.6 miles | 10 | |
| Old Davy | 11.3 miles | 11 | |
| Kubala Store | 12.0 miles | 10 | |
| Upper Meyersville | 14.0 miles | 7 |
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 Nordheim | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q981734 | 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 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.




