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Moscow, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Corrigan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75960. The Survey maps it on the Corrigan quadrangle. It stands 344 feet above sea level.

Moscow within Polk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

60 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Moscow between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9,490 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 8 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 burning29
Arson/incendiarism8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Natural5
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 September 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2013Natural89 acresTexas A & M Forest Service8065
4 September 1997Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 August 2015Debris and open burning150 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHICKMAN CEMETERY ROAD
4 August 2015Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service8047
29 August 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 8057
27 August 2005Natural4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWOODVILLE - 177

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Storms near this place

12 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moscow in 12 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 6 hail, 4 flash flood, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2000HailMoscow$10,000Dime sized hail also reported in Leggett.
February 2003HailMoscow$5,0003/4 inch hail.
July 1996Thunderstorm WindMoscow$5,000no account filed
April 2003HailMoscow$3,000no account filed
July 1998HailMoscow$3,000no account filed
May 2009Flash FloodMoscow$1,000High water was reported over the road at the intersection of US 59 and FM 62.
May 2009Flash FloodMoscow$1,000FM 350 closed due to high water west of Moscow.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindMoscow-Large tree limbs were downed.
April 2023HailMoscow-Nickel sized hail was observed.
September 2013Flash FloodMoscow-There was water over Highway 59 between Moscow and Seven Oaks.
June 2009HailMoscow-Nickel sized hail was observed in Moscow.
November 2004Flash FloodMoscow-Highway 350 exiting Moscow flooded and impassable.

Every storm recorded in Polk 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
Bering2.9 miles13
Walda3.4 miles13
Seven Oaks4.8 miles13
Camden4.8 miles12
Snow Hill5.6 miles13
Corrigan5.8 miles13
Lily Island6.2 miles12
Asia6.3 miles13

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 MoscowAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6915443The 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 1363185. 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.