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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.

Moro within Lee County

Population over time

2 figures

Moro 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.

YearPeople Change
2010216
2020177-39 (-18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 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

4 since 1998

Regional 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 burning4

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
26 June 1998Debris and open burning51 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 October 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 October 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
20 October 2000Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee County

Storms near this place

9 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2004Thunderstorm WindMoro$5,000Several trees were blown down.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindMoro$5,000A few power lines were knocked down.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindMoro$3,000Several trees downed and uprooted along Hwy 238 south of Moro.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindMoro$2,000A couple of trees were knocked down.
April 2003HailMoro$750no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindMoro$500A few trees were knocked down on Highway 78.
May 1997HailMoro$110Hail ranging from dime to quarter size fell near Moro.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindMoro-Scattered trees and power lines were knocked down across the county due to straight line winds.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindMoro-Straight line winds knocked down several trees and power lines in the town of Moro.

Every storm recorded in Lee 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
Little Prairie (historical)2.0 miles15
South Plains3.2 miles14
New Hope4.2 miles12
Oak Forest4.4 miles14
Thomasville4.6 miles12
Smith Corner4.6 miles14
Garrett Grove4.9 miles15
Hopper5.1 miles15

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 MoroAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2580691The 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.