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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.

Moravia within Appanoose County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Moravia 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.

YearPeople Change
2010665
2020637-28 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 printed sheets

Matched 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.

Fires near this place

1 since 2009

Regional 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/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Appanoose County

Storms near this place

14 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1999Thunderstorm WindMoravia$75,000no account filed
May 1996Tornado (F1)Moravia$70,000no account filed
October 2013LightningMoravia$50,000Lightning struck the main lodge of the Honey Creek Resort at Rathbun Lake causing structural and electrical damage.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindMoravia$50,000A barn was destroyed by high winds.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindMoravia$20,000A boat was ripped from anchor at the Rathbun Lake Marina. Trees were blown down as well.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindMoravia$15,000no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindMoravia$15,000no account filed
May 2014HailMoravia$5,000no account filed
April 2002Thunderstorm WindMoravia$5,000no account filed
June 1994HailMoravia$5,000no account filed
March 2006HailMoravia$3,000no account filed
May 1998HailMoravia$3,000no account filed
June 2005HailMoravia-no account filed
May 2004HailMoravia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Appanoose County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Maine3.4 miles9
Hiattsville4.4 miles9
Darbyville6.0 miles9
Rathbun7.3 miles9
Iconium7.4 miles9
Unionville8.1 miles7
Udell8.5 miles7
Clarkdale8.7 miles9

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 MoraviaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1927478The 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.