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Moravia, New York

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Moravia town. It lies in ZIP code area 13118. It stands on Dresserville Creek. The Survey maps it on the Moravia quadrangle. 1,224 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 735 feet above sea level.

Moravia within Cayuga County

Then and now

1898 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 88 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Moravia, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Moravia, surveyed 1898

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 12 of 17 shown

Every listing in Cayuga County

Population over time

2 figures

Moravia fell from 1,282 to 1,224 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
20101,282
20201,224-58 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 25 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

37 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Moravia between 2002 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 6 were 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/undetermined18
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism6
Natural3
Smoking2
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
27 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
14 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
13 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
15 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
1 July 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cayuga County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Moravia: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Scipio-O'Toole PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Town of Locke PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Town of Locke PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Venice-O'Toole PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Cayuga County

Storms near this place

30 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moravia in 30 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 21 thunderstorm wind, 6 flash flood, 3 hail. 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 2020Flash FloodMoravia$500,000Water rapidly rushed through Moravia, NY along Mill Creek and into the Owasco Lake Inlet. A dozen structures in the heart of the village experienced minor to moderate flood damage. One structure was heavily damaged by flooding. The Owasco Inlet crested at 9.44 feet which was near record flooding.
October 2021Flash FloodMoravia$150,000Flash flooding along Mill Creek inundated several roads and homes.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindMoravia$100,000Thunderstorm winds did extensive damage in a small area on Oak Hill Road in Moravia. The damage was thought to be due to a microburst. The winds took the roof off a large barn extension, collapsed a 70 foot tall grain elevator, and downed trees. Other trees were downed on Rockefeller Road.
October 2021Flash FloodMoravia$50,000Significant flooding along Owasco Inlet and in the Village of Moravia occurred. Water was deep across West Cayuga Street.
July 2017Flash FloodMoravia$20,000Numerous roads were flooded throughout Moravia.
August 2004Flash FloodMoravia$20,000Heavy rain caused flash flooding. The rain caused road washouts. Owasco inlet went over its banks and flooded roadways. Other creeks out of their banks and flooding roadways. Rainfall amounts were 2 to 4 inches.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindMoravia$15,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and wires.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindMoravia$5,000A severe thunderstorm produced severe winds as it moved across the area. The thunderstorm resulted in trees being knocked over at Fillmore Glen State Park.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindMoravia$5,000A severe thunderstorm produced severe winds as it moved across the area. The thunderstorm resulted in a trees being knocked over and wires being knocked down in the area. Around two thousand customers were without power due to this storm.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindMoravia$5,000Power poles were blown down across Glen Cove Road.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindMoravia$5,000no account filed
May 2017Thunderstorm WindMoravia$4,000A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm produced severe winds and knocked over a large tree, several large branches and power lines on the ground.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindMoravia$3,000A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm produced severe winds and knocked over trees and power lines.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindMoravia$3,000A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm produced severe winds and knocked over a tree that fell onto a road. This tree being knocked over directly caused windows to be blown out of a residential structure.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindMoravia$3,000Trees and wires were blown down.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindMoravia$2,500Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindMoravia$2,000A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm produced severe winds and knocked down wires which landed in the roadway.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindMoravia$2,000Trees and wires were blown down.
July 2006Flash FloodMoravia$2,000Heavy rain from slow moving thunderstorms caused several small streams and creaks to overflow their banks.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindMoravia$1,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees blocking the road.
June 2017HailMoravia$1,000A thunderstorm developed over the area and produced quarter sized hail.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindMoravia$1,000A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm produced severe winds and knocked over a tree which blocked the road in the vicinity of Fillmore Glenn State Park.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindMoravia$1,000A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm resulted in two trees being knocked over in the town of Moravia.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindMoravia$1,000no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindMoravia$1,000no account filed
May 2001Thunderstorm WindMoravia-Thunderstorm wind gust measured by a SKYWARN spotter.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindMoravia-Half inch diameter hail was reported by a SKYWARN spotter.
October 2001Thunderstorm WindMoravia-Newspaper reports indicate that small hail occurred during a thunderstorm in Moravia.
May 2013HailMoravia-no account filed
June 2006HailMoravia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cayuga 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
Montville1.0 miles25
Toll Gate Corners1.2 miles25
Wilson Corners2.1 miles25
Owasco Hill2.5 miles25
Morse Mill3.5 miles22
Locke3.6 miles25
Southeast Owasco3.7 miles28
Cascade4.0 miles28

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 Q3476346The 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 957642. 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.