Moore Station, Texas
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the LaRue-Poynor census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75770. The Survey maps it on the Moore Station quadrangle. 160 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 420 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresMoore Station fell from 184 to 160 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 | 184 | |
| 2010 | 201 | +17 (+9%) |
| 2020 | 160 | -41 (-20%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 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.
- 1949 USGS Frankston quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1950 USGS Frankston quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1984 USGS Moore Station quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
149 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 149 fires within 5 miles of Moore Station between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,743 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 15 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 | 76 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 37 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 15 |
| Smoking | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 5 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 5 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 4 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 099 |
| 30 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 578 |
| 3 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HENDERSON - 521 |
| 3 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 26 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | #7052 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Moore Station: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Iron Pit | Iron | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Mine | Iron | Producer | Goethite, Hematite |
Storms near this place
2 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moore Station in 2 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moore Station | $12,000 | The roof of a large wood frame and metal panel barn was broken at a property on Pinewood Trl. |
| May 1994 | Tornado (F0) | Moore Station | - | A brief touchdown was reported between Moore Station and Frankston. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunrise Shores | 3.2 miles | 15 | |
| Antioch | 3.5 miles | 15 | |
| Fincastle | 3.6 miles | 15 | |
| New Hope | 5.0 miles | 13 | |
| New York | 5.5 miles | 15 | |
| Leagueville | 5.8 miles | 15 | |
| Coffee City | 5.8 miles | 15 | |
| LaRue | 7.3 miles | 15 |
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 Moore Station | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q982669 | 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 1341888. 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.






