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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.

Moody within McLennan County

Population over time

3 figures

Moody 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.

YearPeople Change
20001,400
20101,371-29 (-2%)
20201,376+5 (+0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 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

39 since 2005

Regional 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 burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking1
Natural1

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
28 September 2019Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
28 September 2019Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTOWERS
1 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use29 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCRIPPLE CREEK
9 August 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
3 August 2015Equipment and vehicle use9.8 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHAUNTED HILL
14 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined75 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
8 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service107 GRASS FIRE
4 July 2009Smoking1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service317 @ FRANKLIN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McLennan County

Storms near this place

35 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1997Tornado (F3)Moody$150,000The 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 1997Thunderstorm WindMoody$75,000Strong winds destroyed a mobile home and two barns.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindMoody$40,000The Moody high school was damaged by high winds.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindMoody$20,000A building in the 500 block of Avenue D in downtown Moody sustained damage to its brick facade.
April 2024Flash FloodMoody$10,000Emergency management reported road closures in the area south of Moody and a culvert collapse at Dowell Road.
May 2024Flash FloodMoody$5,000Emergency 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 2024Thunderstorm WindMoody$5,000Photos received from a storm chaser indicated numerous large trees snapped and minor damage to metal outbuildings.
March 2018HailMoody$5,000A trained spotter reported golf ball sized hail just east of the city of Moody, TX.
April 2008HailMoody$5,000Golfball-size hail was reported near Moody.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindMoody$2,000Strong winds damaged an outbuilding and uprooted small trees.
November 2016Flash FloodMoody$1,000Broadcast media reported that Highway 107 west of the town of Moody was closed due to flooding.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindMoody$1,000A fence was blown away.
October 2010HailMoody-Penny size hail increased to the size of nickels in Moody.
October 2010HailMoody-Quarter size hail was reported 2 miles north of Moody.
June 2004Flash FloodMoody-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 1998Flash FloodMoody-Street flooding was reported in Moody.
April 2021HailMoody-no account filed
April 2021HailMoody-no account filed
May 2011HailMoody-no account filed
May 2011HailMoody-no account filed
April 2008HailMoody-no account filed
April 2008HailMoody-no account filed
April 2008HailMoody-no account filed
May 2004HailMoody-no account filed
May 1998HailMoody-no account filed
June 1998HailMoody-no account filed
February 1997Flash FloodMoody-no account filed
May 1997HailMoody-no account filed
August 1996Flash FloodMoody-no account filed
April 1996HailMoody-no account filed
November 1996Thunderstorm WindMoody-no account filed
September 1996Thunderstorm WindMoody-no account filed
January 1995HailMoody-no account filed
June 1994HailMoody-no account filed
June 1994Thunderstorm WindMoody-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McLennan 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
Bruceville-Eddy5.8 miles16
Eddy5.9 miles16
Bruceville6.7 miles15
Spring Valley7.4 miles16
Lorena9.4 miles16
McGregor9.7 miles15
South Bosque12.6 miles16
Atco13.3 miles16

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 MoodyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982051The 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.