Moore, Idaho
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Arco census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83255. The Survey maps it on the Arco North quadrangle. 162 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,472 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMoore fell from 189 to 162 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 | 189 | |
| 2020 | 162 | -27 (-14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 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.
- 1955 USGS Idaho Falls quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1958 USGS Idaho Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1972 USGS Arco North quadrangle1:24000
- 1988 USGS Arco quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
6 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Moore between 1999 and 2018, burning about 348 acres in total. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 acres | Idaho Falls District | MOORE |
| 3 August 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Falls District | LOST RIVER |
| 24 August 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Salmon-Challis National Forest | JUMPOFF |
| 23 August 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Idaho Falls District | MOORE |
| 23 July 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 300 acres | Idaho Falls District | ARCO |
| 2 July 2013 | Natural | 31 acres | Idaho Falls District | BEAVER PASS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Moore: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Gold. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Champagne | Gold | Plant | 1989 |
Storms near this place
10 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moore in 10 storm reports between 1999 and 2021: 6 flood, 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2017 | Flood | Moore | $265,000 | Extensive snowmelt occurred at low elevations as a warmup took place for a good portion of the first 2 to 3 weeks of the month. Extensive sheet flooding of fields occurred as well as extensive minor flooding of roadways and extreme damage of roadways due to the extreme snowfall and cold temperatures in December and January. |
| March 2017 | Flood | Moore | $135,000 | Sheet flooding continued throughout March in the county with continued road and minor property damages continuing. |
| May 2017 | Flood | Moore | $45,000 | Field flooding damaging agriculture and the flooding continued to damage back roads with some minor basement flooding continued through the month. |
| June 2017 | Flood | Moore | $10,000 | Field flooding damaging agriculture continued and also the flooding continued to damage back roads early in the month. |
| June 2021 | Hail | Moore | - | One inch hail reported near Moore. |
| January 2019 | Flood | Moore | - | Some property and farmland flooding occurred south of Moore in Butte County on January 9th along the Big Lost River. A land owner rescued his cattle from the flooding with none lost due to the flood. Hay storage was also safely relocated. |
| January 2019 | Flood | Moore | - | Flooding returned south of Moore due to ice jamming of the Big Lost River on the 14th. Only farm land was flooded. |
| July 2006 | Hail | Moore | - | no account filed |
| July 2006 | Hail | Moore | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Hail | Moore | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lost River | 3.2 miles | 9 | |
| Darlington | 5.9 miles | 10 | |
| Arco | 7.7 miles | 9 | |
| Butte City | 10.8 miles | 9 | |
| Antelope (historical) | 15.3 miles | 12 | |
| Era | 15.6 miles | 12 | |
| Martin | 18.4 miles | 12 | |
| Howe | 19.5 miles | 10 |
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 Moore | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q383747 | 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 396921. 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.



