Moody, Texas
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Moody-Lorena census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76557. The Survey maps it on the Moody quadrangle. 1,376 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 781 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresMoody fell from 1,400 to 1,376 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 | 1,400 | |
| 2010 | 1,371 | -29 (-2%) |
| 2020 | 1,376 | +5 (+0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 16 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.
- 1892 USGS Temple quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1931 USGS Mc Gregor quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Moody quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Temple quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
39 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Moody between 2005 and 2020, burning about 638 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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 | 20 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 28 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | TOWERS |
| 1 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 29 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CRIPPLE CREEK |
| 9 August 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 3 August 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 9.8 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HAUNTED HILL |
| 14 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 75 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 8 July 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 107 GRASS FIRE |
| 4 July 2009 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 317 @ FRANKLIN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
35 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moody in 35 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 18 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 7 flash flood, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1997 | Tornado (F3) | Moody | $150,000 | The third tornado developed about 1.5 miles east-southeast of Moody in open country just south of Farm-to-Market Road 107. The tornado moved south-southwest and destroyed a house and a barn. Another house was damaged and numerous trees were uprooted. Two vehicles were tossed several hundred feet by the tornado. The strong tornado dissipated about 0.5 miles after moving into extreme northern Bell County. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moody | $75,000 | Strong winds destroyed a mobile home and two barns. |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moody | $40,000 | The Moody high school was damaged by high winds. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moody | $20,000 | A building in the 500 block of Avenue D in downtown Moody sustained damage to its brick facade. |
| April 2024 | Flash Flood | Moody | $10,000 | Emergency management reported road closures in the area south of Moody and a culvert collapse at Dowell Road. |
| May 2024 | Flash Flood | Moody | $5,000 | Emergency management reported a washed out culvert/road on Dowell Road near Big Elm Creek 3 miles SSE of Moody due to heavy rainfall and flooding Thursday morning. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moody | $5,000 | Photos received from a storm chaser indicated numerous large trees snapped and minor damage to metal outbuildings. |
| March 2018 | Hail | Moody | $5,000 | A trained spotter reported golf ball sized hail just east of the city of Moody, TX. |
| April 2008 | Hail | Moody | $5,000 | Golfball-size hail was reported near Moody. |
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moody | $2,000 | Strong winds damaged an outbuilding and uprooted small trees. |
| November 2016 | Flash Flood | Moody | $1,000 | Broadcast media reported that Highway 107 west of the town of Moody was closed due to flooding. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moody | $1,000 | A fence was blown away. |
| October 2010 | Hail | Moody | - | Penny size hail increased to the size of nickels in Moody. |
| October 2010 | Hail | Moody | - | Quarter size hail was reported 2 miles north of Moody. |
| June 2004 | Flash Flood | Moody | - | Water was over Interstate 35 at mile marker 315. FM 317 was flooded at different locations from Moody south to the Coryell County line. |
| June 1998 | Flash Flood | Moody | - | Street flooding was reported in Moody. |
| April 2021 | Hail | Moody | - | no account filed |
| April 2021 | Hail | Moody | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Moody | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Moody | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Moody | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Moody | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Moody | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Moody | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Moody | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Moody | - | no account filed |
| February 1997 | Flash Flood | Moody | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Moody | - | no account filed |
| August 1996 | Flash Flood | Moody | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Moody | - | no account filed |
| November 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moody | - | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moody | - | no account filed |
| January 1995 | Hail | Moody | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Hail | Moody | - | no account filed |
| June 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moody | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bruceville-Eddy | 5.8 miles | 16 | |
| Eddy | 5.9 miles | 16 | |
| Bruceville | 6.7 miles | 15 | |
| Spring Valley | 7.4 miles | 16 | |
| Lorena | 9.4 miles | 16 | |
| McGregor | 9.7 miles | 15 | |
| South Bosque | 12.6 miles | 16 | |
| Atco | 13.3 miles | 16 |
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 Moody | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q982051 | 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 1363077. 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.





