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Moulton, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Moulton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77975. It lies near Frederick Mound. The Survey maps it on the Moulton quadrangle. 854 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 361 feet above sea level.

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Moulton within Lavaca County

Population over time

3 figures

Moulton fell from 944 to 854 between 2000 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
2000944
2010886-58 (-6%)
2020854-32 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Moulton between 1999 and 2011, burning about 74 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 burning3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
13 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENKE
29 May 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBILL BRADFIELD
1 December 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceZIMMERMAN
1 December 2010Debris and open burning1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHAAS
23 October 1999Debris and open burning60 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lavaca County

Storms near this place

25 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moulton in 25 storm reports between 1993 and 2015: 13 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2003Thunderstorm WindMoulton$150,000As the line of thunderstorms associated with the late season cold front moved southward into Lavaca County, they produced severe winds just south of the Fayette County line. The wind knocked down many trees and power lines. Some homes were without power until 3am the following day.
April 2004HailMoulton$100,000A second flurry of large hail, this time bigger than baseballs, damaged cars and homes east of Moulton.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindMoulton$50,000Amateur Radio spotters reported power lines and power poles blown down in and around Moulton.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindMoulton$30,000Severe thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines in and near Moulton and produced nearly 3.5 inches of rain in just one hour.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindMoulton$20,000no account filed
May 1993Thunderstorm WindMoulton$5,000Pea to quarter-size hail was reported near Moulton. Thunderstorm winds uprooted a few trees in the Town. The trees fell on to some power lines and a fence. The County Sheriff's Office reported nickel-size hail between Yoakum and Shiner.
November 2015Thunderstorm WindMoulton-A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 60 mph that blew the roof off of a mobile home, blew down fences and power lines, and knocked over small outbuildings.
September 2010Tornado (EF0)Moulton-As tropical storm Hermine moved north, a tornado formed along highway 95 approximately one mile south of Moulton in Lavaca County. A portion of a roof was blown off an abandoned building and a tree was also uprooted on the property. The tornado moved north along the east side of Highway 95 and traveled through a corn field where the track was clearly visible. The tornado then lifted or weakened just south of Moulton after traveling 0.2 miles. Maximum wind speeds were estimated at 65 mph with a maximum width of 50 yards. This tornado was rated as an EF0 on the enhanced Fujita scale.
May 2007Flash FloodMoulton-Scattered showers and thunderstorms produced general 1 to 3 inch rain amounts over Lavaca County, with up to 4 inches near Moulton. Flash flooding closed many roads in the county, including CR14 and FM532.
May 2005Flash FloodMoulton-Thunderstorms produced between 1 and 2 inches of rain between Moulton and Shiner, with up to 5 inches in the area around Moulton. SH95 was closed between Moulton and Shiner and FM1444 was flooded near Yorktown.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindMoulton-Severe thunderstorm winds blew down trees along SH532 east of Moulton.
April 2004Thunderstorm WindMoulton-Trees were blown down by severe thunderstorm winds in the northern part of the county.
November 2000Tornado (F0)Moulton-A small tornado was observed as it touched down ery briefly in an open field just east of Moulton. It caused no damage.
January 1994HailMoulton-Moulton Police reported hail between 0.50 and 1.00-inch-diameter over the northern half of Lavaca County , just east-northeast of Moulton. No significant damage was indicated.
February 1993HailMoulton-The Hallettsville Police Department reported dime-size hail in the northeastern part of Moulton.
March 1993HailMoulton-The sheriff's office reported dime-size hail in Moulton.
May 1993HailMoulton-Pea to quarter-size hail was reported near Moulton. Thunderstorm winds uprooted a few trees in the Town. The trees fell on to some power lines and a fence. The County Sheriff's Office reported nickel-size hail between Yoakum and Shiner.
March 2005HailMoulton-no account filed
March 2005HailMoulton-no account filed
March 2005HailMoulton-no account filed
April 2004HailMoulton-no account filed
May 2001HailMoulton-no account filed
May 2001HailMoulton-no account filed
June 1996HailMoulton-no account filed
June 1996HailMoulton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lavaca 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
Old Moulton2.0 miles11
Henkhaus4.5 miles11
Komensky5.1 miles11
Novohrad5.4 miles11
Witting6.4 miles11
Moravia8.4 miles10
Breslau8.5 miles10
Shiner10.2 miles9

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 MoultonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q961291The 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 1342001. 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.