Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Nome, TX

Nome is a small city that straddles the Jefferson County and Liberty County line in Southeast Texas, about 20 miles west of Beaumont at the junction of U.S. Highway 90, State Highway 326, and Farm Road 365.

Nome began in the early 1860s as Congreve Station, a stop on the Texas and New Orleans Railroad named for one of the line's New York financiers.

Before it was Nome, the spot was variously known as Wolf Point, Tiger Point, Petry Woods, and Carter's Woods, and a post office operated there under the name Sour Lake from 1866 to 1880.

Nome got its current name in 1903, borrowed from the famous Nome, Alaska gold rush, because the oil discovery at nearby Sour Lake around 1900 drew a similar rush of people and money.

Rice farming has long been Nome's mainstay, but the discovery of the Nome oilfield in 1936 added oil and natural gas production to the local economy.

Nome was not incorporated until October 1971, more than a century after the railroad station was established.

Nome had 469 residents at the 2020 census, down from a peak of 588 in 2010.

Nome is part of the Beaumont–Port Arthur metropolitan area, despite its rural, rice-farming character.