BlockMoravia, Texas
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Moulton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78956. It stands on Little Rocky Creek. The Survey maps it on the Moravia quadrangle.
On record in Moravia
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Ascension of Our Lord Catholic Churchlisted 1983
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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.
- 1919 USGS Schulenburg quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Moravia quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Eagle Lake quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
20 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Moravia between 2005 and 2013, burning about 36 acres in total. None 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 | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MUTUAL AIDE MOULTON |
| 13 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 29 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SVETLIK GF |
| 12 July 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WALTER HERMIS |
| 5 June 2006 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 17 May 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 28 April 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 20 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | BRYAN SCITT |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moravia in 2 storm reports between 2005 and 2012: 2 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2012 | Flash Flood | Moravia | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that caused flash flooding of low water crossings closing FM957 north of Highway 77 out of Hallettsville. |
| May 2005 | Flash Flood | Moravia | - | In extreme northern Lavaca County, thunderstorms produced up to 4 inches of rain between Moravia and Hackberry. The resulting flash flooding closed FM957 near Moravia and FM532 near Hackberry. |
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 1341899. 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.