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Moulton, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52572. The Survey maps it on the Moulton quadrangle. 607 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 991 feet above sea level.

Moulton within Appanoose County

Population over time

2 figures

Moulton grew from 605 to 607 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
2010605
2020607+2 (+0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

17 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Moulton between 2006 and 2017, burning about 240 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined11
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
10 May 2014Arson/incendiarism45 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources33284 582ND ST. MOULTON, IA, IA
1 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources29996 315TH AVE MOULTON, IA, IA
2 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
17 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resources112 W 9TH MOULTON, IA, IA
16 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources503 N EAST ST. MOULTON, IA, IA
16 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Appanoose County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Moulton: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Drill HoleZincPast ProducerSphalerite

Every working recorded in Appanoose County

Storms near this place

28 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moulton in 28 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 12 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 2 lightning, 2 heavy rain. 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 2003LightningMoulton$75,000no account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindMoulton$50,000no account filed
July 2010LightningMoulton$40,000no account filed
April 1997Thunderstorm WindMoulton$40,000no account filed
June 2015Thunderstorm WindMoulton$25,000Appanoose County Sheriff Dispatch reported multiple trees down in Moulton area.
May 1996HailMoulton$15,000no account filed
June 2019Thunderstorm WindMoulton$10,000Trained spotter reported 6 to 8 inch diameter tree limbs snapped as well as damage to a residential roof in town.
June 2010HailMoulton$10,000no account filed
July 2008HailMoulton$10,000no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindMoulton$10,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindMoulton$10,000no account filed
July 2015Thunderstorm WindMoulton$5,000Trained spotter reported 4 inch diameter tree branches down in and around Moulton.
April 2003HailMoulton$5,000no account filed
September 2001Thunderstorm WindMoulton$5,000no account filed
May 1996HailMoulton$5,000no account filed
March 2006HailMoulton$4,000no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindMoulton$3,000no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindMoulton$1,000Several small tree limbs were blown down.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindMoulton-Strong winds were bending small, weak trees completely over, while bigger trees had 2 to 3 inch diameter branches broken off. Small hail was all occurring, but appeared to be less than quarter in size.
June 2017HailMoulton-Storm chaser reported hail slightly larger than quarters. This is a delayed report and came in via social media.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindMoulton-Storm chaser reported a few large tree limbs down in town. Report came in via social media.
June 2015Flash FloodMoulton-Law Enforcement reported flooding within the town of Moulton.
July 2015Heavy RainMoulton-Mesonet site reported 2.00 inches of rain over the last 24 hours.
July 2015Heavy RainMoulton-Mesonet reported storm total of 2.63 inches of rain.
July 2024HailMoulton-no account filed
April 2010HailMoulton-no account filed
May 2004HailMoulton-no account filed
April 2003HailMoulton-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
Orleans2.9 miles7
Dean4.5 miles7
Coal City6.5 miles7
Udell7.4 miles7
Sedan8.5 miles11
Exline9.0 miles11
Unionville9.2 miles7
Thirty10.1 miles11

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 MoultonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1927717The 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 459266. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.