BlockBefore

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.

Mauriceville within Orange County

Population over time

3 figures

Mauriceville 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.

YearPeople Change
20002,743
20103,252+509 (+19%)
20202,983-269 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

111 since 1992

Regional 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 burning63
Arson/incendiarism35
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresLivingston AreaWOODVILLE - 9098
8 September 2012Debris and open burning2.6 acresLivingston AreaWOODVILLE - 9099
7 September 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 224
7 September 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service487 S 7
5 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLIVINGSTON - 853
4 September 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service487 S 2
30 September 1993Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Storms near this place

17 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2006FloodMauriceville$4,000,000Two 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 2006FloodMauriceville$500,000An 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 1998Tornado (F0)Mauriceville$50,000no account filed
May 2020Tornado (EF1)Mauriceville$10,000An 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 1998Thunderstorm WindMauriceville$10,000no account filed
June 2006Flash FloodMauriceville$5,000no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindMauriceville$5,000no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindMauriceville$5,000no account filed
September 2000Thunderstorm WindMauriceville$2,000no account filed
April 2024HailMauriceville-Hail slightly larger than 1 inch was reported via social media.
January 2024Flash FloodMauriceville-Stream gages on Cow Bayou and Terry Ditch measured water levels consistent with minor flooding.
April 2024HailMauriceville-Quarter size hail was reported near Mauriceville.
May 2019Flash FloodMauriceville-TXDOT reported water over several roads around Mauriceville. Water was also reported over roads in Bridge City and approaching residences.
February 2009HailMauriceville-Nickel size hail occurred at the intersection of Highway 12 and Farm-to-Market Road 1136.
June 2008HailMauriceville-no account filed
May 2004HailMauriceville-no account filed
April 2000HailMauriceville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Orange 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
Coughlin1.2 miles13
Lemonville1.3 miles13
Texla1.4 miles13
Gratis4.2 miles13
Kinard Estates4.5 miles13
Stark5.0 miles13
Doty5.2 miles13
Peveto5.3 miles13

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 MauricevilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q975446The 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.