Mauriceville, Texas
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Mauriceville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77632. The Survey maps it on the Mauriceville quadrangle. 2,983 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 26 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresMauriceville grew from 2,743 to 2,983 between 2000 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 2,743 | |
| 2010 | 3,252 | +509 (+19%) |
| 2020 | 2,983 | -269 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 1926 USGS Mauriceville quadrangle1:24000
- 1943 USGS Mauriceville quadrangle1:24000
- 1952 USGS Lake Charles quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Lake Charles quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Mauriceville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Orangefield quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Lake Charles quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
111 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Mauriceville between 1992 and 2017, burning about 1,312 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 35 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 63 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 35 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 7 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Livingston Area | WOODVILLE - 9098 |
| 8 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 2.6 acres | Livingston Area | WOODVILLE - 9099 |
| 7 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WOODVILLE - 224 |
| 7 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 487 S 7 |
| 5 September 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LIVINGSTON - 853 |
| 4 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 487 S 2 |
| 30 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 23 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
17 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mauriceville in 17 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2006 | Flood | Mauriceville | $4,000,000 | Two day rain totals of 12 to 16 inches resulted in long duration flooding across portions of Orange County. The hardest hit areas were near Mauriceville, and along the Neches River near Lakeview. At least 40 homes were destroyed and another 60 were damaged. |
| October 2006 | Flood | Mauriceville | $500,000 | An additonal 10 to 12 inches of rain in less than 24 hours resulted in significant flooding in the Mauriceville area. Roads were closed and some homes had water enter them. |
| October 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Mauriceville | $50,000 | no account filed |
| May 2020 | Tornado (EF1) | Mauriceville | $10,000 | An EF-1 tornado touched down just west of Highway 62 south of Mauriceville and continued across parts of FM1130 and Hwy 12 before ending along Kaiyute Road. Several trees were snapped or uprooted along the path. |
| February 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mauriceville | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Flash Flood | Mauriceville | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mauriceville | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mauriceville | $5,000 | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mauriceville | $2,000 | no account filed |
| April 2024 | Hail | Mauriceville | - | Hail slightly larger than 1 inch was reported via social media. |
| January 2024 | Flash Flood | Mauriceville | - | Stream gages on Cow Bayou and Terry Ditch measured water levels consistent with minor flooding. |
| April 2024 | Hail | Mauriceville | - | Quarter size hail was reported near Mauriceville. |
| May 2019 | Flash Flood | Mauriceville | - | TXDOT reported water over several roads around Mauriceville. Water was also reported over roads in Bridge City and approaching residences. |
| February 2009 | Hail | Mauriceville | - | Nickel size hail occurred at the intersection of Highway 12 and Farm-to-Market Road 1136. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Mauriceville | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Mauriceville | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Hail | Mauriceville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coughlin | 1.2 miles | 13 | |
| Lemonville | 1.3 miles | 13 | |
| Texla | 1.4 miles | 13 | |
| Gratis | 4.2 miles | 13 | |
| Kinard Estates | 4.5 miles | 13 | |
| Stark | 5.0 miles | 13 | |
| Doty | 5.2 miles | 13 | |
| Peveto | 5.3 miles | 13 |
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 Mauriceville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q975446 | 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 1341084. 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.






