Yes, NOME is a Scrabble word!

Letter values in Scrabble US: N 1, O 1, M 3, E 1.

Is it a valid word?

NOME is a valid word in the official Scrabble dictionary (US), the UK Scrabble Dictionary and Words with Friends (ENABLE).

a town in western Alaska on the southern coast of the Seward Peninsula; an important center of an Alaskan gold rush at the beginning of the 20th century