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.
Population over time
2 figuresMuldoon 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1943 | 200 | |
| 2010 | 114 |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 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.
- 1901 USGS Flatonia quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Muldoon quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Seguin quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
33 since 1993Regional 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/undetermined | 11 |
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 7 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 7 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 7 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 6 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 18 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 9 August 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SOUTH BRANCH - 35 |
| 4 August 2001 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SOUTH BRANCH - 30 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 11 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Baroid Muldoon Mine | Bentonite | Past Producer | ||
| Cherry Pit | Bentonite | Producer | Bentonite | |
| Cherry Pit | Bentonite | Past Producer | ||
| Henderson Pit | Bentonite | Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Henderson Pit | Bentonite | Producer | ||
| Hopper Ivy Pit | Bentonite | Past Producer | ||
| Hopper-Ivy Pit | Bentonite | Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Parker Pit | Bentonite | Past Producer | ||
| Southern Clay Syler Pit | Bentonite | Producer |
Storms near this place
16 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Muldoon | $10,000 | Severe winds blew down trees and large tree limbs in an area 2 miles wide and nearly 10 miles long in open country. |
| January 2024 | Flash Flood | Muldoon | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding closing numerous low water crossings in the Muldoon area. |
| December 2024 | Hail | Muldoon | - | A thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail in Muldoon. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Muldoon | - | 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 2023 | Hail | Muldoon | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail in Muldoon. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Muldoon | - | A thunderstorm produced quarter size hail near Muldoon. |
| October 2018 | Flood | Muldoon | - | Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to minor flooding closing FM 154 northeast of Muldoon. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Muldoon | - | Multiple large trees were reported down due to high thunderstorm winds about 1 mile northwest of the city of Muldoon. |
| June 2015 | Flash Flood | Muldoon | - | Heavy rain from Tropical storm Bill caused flash flooding closing numerous low water crossings in southern Fayette County. |
| March 2007 | Flash Flood | Muldoon | - | 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 2007 | Flash Flood | Muldoon | - | 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 2007 | Flash Flood | Muldoon | - | 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 2004 | Flash Flood | Muldoon | - | 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 2003 | Hail | Muldoon | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Muldoon | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Muldoon | - | 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.
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 Muldoon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q14711092 | 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 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.




