Moravia, Iowa
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Taylor Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52571. The Survey maps it on the Moravia quadrangle. 637 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 994 feet above sea level.
On record in Moravia
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Wabash Combination Depot-Moravialisted 1996
Population over time
2 figuresMoravia fell from 665 to 637 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 | 665 | |
| 2020 | 637 | -28 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 9 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.
- 1939 USGS Mystic quadrangle1:62500
- 1942 USGS Mystic quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:100000
- 1982 USGS Moravia quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
1 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Moravia in 2009, burning about 20 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
14 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moravia in 14 storm reports between 1994 and 2014: 6 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moravia | $75,000 | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Tornado (F1) | Moravia | $70,000 | no account filed |
| October 2013 | Lightning | Moravia | $50,000 | Lightning struck the main lodge of the Honey Creek Resort at Rathbun Lake causing structural and electrical damage. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moravia | $50,000 | A barn was destroyed by high winds. |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moravia | $20,000 | A boat was ripped from anchor at the Rathbun Lake Marina. Trees were blown down as well. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moravia | $15,000 | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moravia | $15,000 | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Moravia | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moravia | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Moravia | $5,000 | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Moravia | $3,000 | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Moravia | $3,000 | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Moravia | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Moravia | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maine | 3.4 miles | 9 | |
| Hiattsville | 4.4 miles | 9 | |
| Darbyville | 6.0 miles | 9 | |
| Rathbun | 7.3 miles | 9 | |
| Iconium | 7.4 miles | 9 | |
| Unionville | 8.1 miles | 7 | |
| Udell | 8.5 miles | 7 | |
| Clarkdale | 8.7 miles | 9 |
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 Moravia | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1927478 | 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 459222. 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.






