BlockMorales, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Edna-Cordele census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77957. It stands on Stem Branch. The Survey maps it on the Morales quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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.
- 1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Morales quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS El Campo quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
18 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Morales between 2011 and 2019, burning about 523 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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 | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MORALES |
| 8 August 2014 | Debris and open burning | 63 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 822 FIRE |
| 26 August 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 100 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 822 |
| 9 July 2011 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 126 FIRE |
| 18 July 2011 | Natural | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 284 FIRE |
| 14 July 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 822 FIRE |
| 23 June 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 126 |
| 9 May 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 285 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morales in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2017 | Flash Flood | Morales | $100,000 | Numerous roads and bridges north of Highway 59 and west of FM 822 were inundated with flood waters. |
| August 2017 | Flash Flood | Morales | $100,000 | County roads 283, 284, 401, and 127 north of the town of Edna were inundated with flood waters. |
| April 2004 | Hail | Morales | $10,000 | Quarter-size hail in Morales. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morales | $9,000 | Large tree limbs down. |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Morales | $8,000 | F0 tornado damaged a rural fence. |
| June 1996 | Hail | Morales | $5,000 | no account filed |
| November 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morales | $4,500 | Tree down on residential home roof. |
| March 1998 | Hail | Morales | $2,000 | no account filed |
| April 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morales | - | An emergency manager reported one downed tree and various other vegetative debris across the shoulder of SH 111. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morales | - | Wind gusts estimated at 50 to 60 mph downed trees on FM 283 near Morales. |
| June 2008 | Funnel Cloud | Morales | - | Two funnel clouds were observed just south of the town of Morales. |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380211. 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.