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.
Population over time
2 figuresMorgan 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 490 | |
| 2020 | 454 | -36 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 17 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.
- 1889 USGS Granbury quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1931 USGS Morgan quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Dallas quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Morgan quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Cleburne quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
172 since 2005Regional 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 burning | 87 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 44 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 22 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | PASTER FIRE |
| 29 September 2020 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2615 BRUSH PILES |
| 27 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 23 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CITY OF MORGAN |
| 18 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | PAYNE FIRE |
| 14 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 1110 |
| 13 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CAMPBELL FIRE |
| 1 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | PR 1112 BRUSH |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
26 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1994 | Tornado (F1) | Morgan | $500,000 | A brief touchdown destroyed a mobile home and heavily damaged two houses. |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morgan | $15,000 | Numerous trees and fences were blown down and the roof of a house was blown off. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Morgan | $12,000 | Broadcast media relayed a photo of measured 2.76 inch hail. |
| May 2016 | Flash Flood | Morgan | $5,000 | Several 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 2004 | Flash Flood | Morgan | $5,000 | A bridge was under water 1/2 mile west of town on County Road 1120. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morgan | $2,000 | Trees were blown down by high winds. |
| May 2015 | Flood | Morgan | $1,000 | Flooded roadways were reported north of Morgan in northern Bosque County after 2 to 3 inches or rain fell. |
| July 2025 | Flash Flood | Morgan | - | 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 2024 | Flash Flood | Morgan | - | Emergency management reported road closing on CR 1120 due to water over crossings/bridges. |
| May 2015 | Flood | Morgan | - | Emergency management reported that several water crossings were closed near Morgan, and CR 1743 in Laguna Park was also closed due to flooding. |
| May 2015 | Flash Flood | Morgan | - | 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 2014 | Flash Flood | Morgan | - | 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 2014 | Hail | Morgan | - | Hail to the size of quarters was reported 5 miles north of Meridian. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Morgan | - | Quarter size hail fell between the cities of Walnut Springs and Meridian. |
| June 2004 | Flash Flood | Morgan | - | 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 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morgan | - | Strong winds blew down a tree. |
| April 1994 | Hail | Morgan | - | The Sheriff's Office reported a brief touchdown. |
| April 1994 | Hail | Morgan | - | The Sheriff's Office reported a brief touchdown. |
| May 2003 | Hail | Morgan | - | no account filed |
| December 2002 | Hail | Morgan | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Morgan | - | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Flash Flood | Morgan | - | no account filed |
| October 1996 | Hail | Morgan | - | no account filed |
| October 1996 | Hail | Morgan | - | no account filed |
| May 1994 | Hail | Morgan | - | no account filed |
| May 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morgan | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeside Village | 6.1 miles | 18 | |
| Kopperl | 6.6 miles | 17 | |
| Meridian | 7.1 miles | 13 | |
| Walnut Springs | 7.9 miles | 16 | |
| Kimball (historical) | 9.0 miles | 18 | |
| Cedar Shores | 10.6 miles | 16 | |
| Eulogy | 10.7 miles | 17 | |
| Bosque | 11.3 miles | 12 |
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 Morgan | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q972448 | 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 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.





