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Muldoon, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Flatonia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78949. It stands on Tuttle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Muldoon quadrangle. 114 people lived here at the 2010 count. It stands 266 feet above sea level.

Muldoon within Fayette County

Population over time

2 figures

Muldoon fell from 200 to 114 between 1943 and 2010. 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
1943200
2010114

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

33 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Muldoon between 1993 and 2017, burning about 463 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Debris and open burning10
Equipment and vehicle use5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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
7 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH BRANCH - 35
4 August 2001Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH BRANCH - 30

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fayette County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Muldoon: 6 producers, 5 past producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Bentonite, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownClayPast Producer
Baroid Muldoon MineBentonitePast Producer
Cherry PitBentoniteProducerBentonite
Cherry PitBentonitePast Producer
Henderson PitBentoniteProducerSedimentary
Henderson PitBentoniteProducer
Hopper Ivy PitBentonitePast Producer
Hopper-Ivy PitBentoniteProducerSedimentary
Parker PitBentonitePast Producer
Southern Clay Syler PitBentoniteProducer

Every working recorded in Fayette County

Storms near this place

16 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Muldoon in 16 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 7 hail, 6 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
February 1999Thunderstorm WindMuldoon$10,000Severe winds blew down trees and large tree limbs in an area 2 miles wide and nearly 10 miles long in open country.
January 2024Flash FloodMuldoon-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing numerous low water crossings in the Muldoon area.
December 2024HailMuldoon-A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail in Muldoon.
April 2023HailMuldoon-A thunderstorm produced hail up to the size of ping pong balls between West Point and Muldoon. Most of the hail was penny to nickel size.
April 2023HailMuldoon-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Muldoon.
May 2023HailMuldoon-A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail near Muldoon.
October 2018FloodMuldoon-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to minor flooding closing FM 154 northeast of Muldoon.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindMuldoon-Multiple large trees were reported down due to high thunderstorm winds about 1 mile northwest of the city of Muldoon.
June 2015Flash FloodMuldoon-Heavy rain from Tropical storm Bill caused flash flooding closing numerous low water crossings in southern Fayette County.
March 2007Flash FloodMuldoon-Thunderstorms stretching from northern Fayette County southward through Lavaca and DeWitt Counties produced widespread 1 to 2 inch rain totals as the moved eastward. Highest totals in Fayette County were near 4 inches just west of LaGrange and near Warrenton. Flash flooding closed FM609 and SH159.
May 2007Flash FloodMuldoon-Scattered showers and thunderstorms produced general 1 to 2 inch rain amounts in western Fayette County with up to 4 inches near Flatonia. Flash flooding closed FM609 and FM154.
May 2007Flash FloodMuldoon-Scattered showers and thunderstorms produced general 1 to 3 inch rain amounts over southern Fayette County with highest amounts of 4 inches near Schulenburg. SH95 and FM609 were closed due to high water.
July 2004Flash FloodMuldoon-Heavy rain between Muldoon and Engle averaged near 2 inches, with spotty 4 inch accumulations. Flash flooding closed several roads at low water crossings, including FM609 and FM154.
April 2003HailMuldoon-no account filed
June 2002HailMuldoon-no account filed
June 1998HailMuldoon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fayette 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
Floy2.7 miles11
Marly4.3 miles11
Lena5.2 miles12
O'Quinn5.2 miles10
Stellar6.3 miles11
Colony6.6 miles11
Freyburg6.8 miles10
Fords Prairie7.3 miles11

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 MuldoonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14711092The 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 1342244. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.