Moro, Arkansas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Hampton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72368. The Survey maps it on the Moro quadrangle. 177 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 200 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMoro fell from 216 to 177 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 | 216 | |
| 2020 | 177 | -39 (-18%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 14 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.
- 1940 USGS Marianna quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Marianna quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Helena quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Helena quadrangle1:100000
- 1984 USGS Moro quadrangle1:24000
- 1990 USGS Helena quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
4 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Moro between 1998 and 2000, burning about 58 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 burning | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 June 1998 | Debris and open burning | 51 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 October 2000 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 October 2000 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 October 2000 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moro in 9 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moro | $5,000 | Several trees were blown down. |
| August 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moro | $5,000 | A few power lines were knocked down. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moro | $3,000 | Several trees downed and uprooted along Hwy 238 south of Moro. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moro | $2,000 | A couple of trees were knocked down. |
| April 2003 | Hail | Moro | $750 | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moro | $500 | A few trees were knocked down on Highway 78. |
| May 1997 | Hail | Moro | $110 | Hail ranging from dime to quarter size fell near Moro. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moro | - | Scattered trees and power lines were knocked down across the county due to straight line winds. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moro | - | Straight line winds knocked down several trees and power lines in the town of Moro. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Little Prairie (historical) | 2.0 miles | 15 | |
| South Plains | 3.2 miles | 14 | |
| New Hope | 4.2 miles | 12 | |
| Oak Forest | 4.4 miles | 14 | |
| Thomasville | 4.6 miles | 12 | |
| Smith Corner | 4.6 miles | 14 | |
| Garrett Grove | 4.9 miles | 15 | |
| Hopper | 5.1 miles | 15 |
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 Moro | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2580691 | 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 77691. 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.









