Nazareth, TX

Nazareth is a city in Castro County, Texas, United States. The 2020 census counted 310 residents. Nazareth was established through the efforts of a Catholic priest, Joseph Reisdorff, who moved to the site in 1902 with four farmers interested in purchasing land in the area. Father Reisdorff named his colony after the biblical Nazareth and advertised for settlers in several midwestern German Catholic newspapers. The Nazareth Swiftettes basketball team have won 27 state championships in a 50-year span, a current public school national record. The short version is that Nazareth carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Nazareth: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Nazareth is 12 miles east of Dimmitt, the county seat, and 20 miles west of Tulia.