Nolan is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in southeastern
Nolan County, Texas, United States. It lies along
FM 126 southeast of the city of
Sweetwater, the
county seat
A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or parish (administrative division), civil parish. The term is in use in five countries: Canada, China, Hungary, Romania, and the United States. An equiva ...
of Nolan County. Although Nolan is unincorporated, it has a
post office
A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letter (message), letters and parcel (package), parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post o ...
, with the
ZIP code of 79537; the
ZCTA for ZIP Code 79537 had a population of 94 at the
2000 census.
Nolan was founded in 1928 as a union of two communities: a previous Nolan (to the west), and Dora (to the east).
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*Divide School operated in Nolan between 1928 and 1985.
Unincorporated communities in Nolan County, Texas
Unincorporated communities in Texas
Populated places established in 1928
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