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Morgan, Texas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Meridian census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76671. It stands on Steele Creek. The Survey maps it on the Morgan quadrangle. 454 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 761 feet above sea level.

Morgan within Bosque County

Population over time

2 figures

Morgan fell from 490 to 454 between 2010 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
2010490
2020454-36 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 17 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

172 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 172 fires within 5 miles of Morgan between 2005 and 2020, burning about 2,151 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 6 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 burning87
Missing data/not specified/undetermined44
Equipment and vehicle use22
Arson/incendiarism6
Natural5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking1

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
3 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePASTER FIRE
29 September 2020Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2615 BRUSH PILES
27 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
23 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCITY OF MORGAN
18 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePAYNE FIRE
14 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 1110
13 September 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCAMPBELL FIRE
1 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServicePR 1112 BRUSH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bosque County

Storms near this place

26 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morgan in 26 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 11 hail, 8 flash flood, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1994Tornado (F1)Morgan$500,000A brief touchdown destroyed a mobile home and heavily damaged two houses.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindMorgan$15,000Numerous trees and fences were blown down and the roof of a house was blown off.
May 2025HailMorgan$12,000Broadcast media relayed a photo of measured 2.76 inch hail.
May 2016Flash FloodMorgan$5,000Several roads between Clifton and Meridian were closed due to flooding. Also nearly every county road that crossed Meridian, Bee, and Neils creeks were closed due to high water at the crossings.
April 2004Flash FloodMorgan$5,000A bridge was under water 1/2 mile west of town on County Road 1120.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindMorgan$2,000Trees were blown down by high winds.
May 2015FloodMorgan$1,000Flooded roadways were reported north of Morgan in northern Bosque County after 2 to 3 inches or rain fell.
July 2025Flash FloodMorgan-Emergency management reported that Highway 6 was closed in Iredell, and that most low water crossings across the north half of the county were closed due to flash flooding.
May 2024Flash FloodMorgan-Emergency management reported road closing on CR 1120 due to water over crossings/bridges.
May 2015FloodMorgan-Emergency management reported that several water crossings were closed near Morgan, and CR 1743 in Laguna Park was also closed due to flooding.
May 2015Flash FloodMorgan-Emergency management reported that State Highway 174 approximately 3 miles north of Morgan, TX was closed due to about a foot of water flowing over the road.
June 2014Flash FloodMorgan-SH 174 north of Morgan was closed due to high water over the road. At least a few other smaller roads in the area were also covered in water. An estimated 5+ inches of rain fell over the area.
April 2014HailMorgan-Hail to the size of quarters was reported 5 miles north of Meridian.
May 2010HailMorgan-Quarter size hail fell between the cities of Walnut Springs and Meridian.
June 2004Flash FloodMorgan-CR 1120 was under water at Steel Creek, and 7 miles west southwest of Clifton, water was over the road at Gary Creek, and over Highway 174 between Morgan and Kopperl.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindMorgan-Strong winds blew down a tree.
April 1994HailMorgan-The Sheriff's Office reported a brief touchdown.
April 1994HailMorgan-The Sheriff's Office reported a brief touchdown.
May 2003HailMorgan-no account filed
December 2002HailMorgan-no account filed
May 2002HailMorgan-no account filed
September 1996Flash FloodMorgan-no account filed
October 1996HailMorgan-no account filed
October 1996HailMorgan-no account filed
May 1994HailMorgan-no account filed
May 1994Thunderstorm WindMorgan-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bosque 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
Lakeside Village6.1 miles18
Kopperl6.6 miles17
Meridian7.1 miles13
Walnut Springs7.9 miles16
Kimball (historical)9.0 miles18
Cedar Shores10.6 miles16
Eulogy10.7 miles17
Bosque11.3 miles12

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 MorganAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q972448The 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 1341904. 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.