BlockMorocco, Indiana
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Beaver Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47963. The Survey maps it on the Morocco quadrangle. 1,081 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 696 feet above sea level.
On record in Morocco
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 2 records
Scott-Lucas Houselisted 2003
Seller's Standard Station and Pullman Dinerlisted 2014
Population over time
2 figuresMorocco fell from 1,129 to 1,081 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 | 1,129 | |
| 2020 | 1,081 | -48 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 8 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.
- 1953 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Morocco quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Watseka quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Watseka quadrangle1:100000
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 Morocco: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newton Co. Hwy. Dept. | Stone | Producer |
Storms near this place
15 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morocco in 15 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 10 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morocco | $20,000 | A roof was blown off of a house on Meridian Road. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Morocco | - | A report from mPING relayed 1.25 inch diameter hail in Morocco. Time was estimated based on radar. |
| July 2023 | Tornado (EF0) | Morocco | - | Based upon drone imagery provided by the Newton County Emergency Management Agency, this tornado touched down in a field north of 400S Road at 500W Road west of Morocco. The tornado tracked to the east-southeast over mainly rural areas, damaging a few trees. This tornado left a narrow, convergent path of flattened corn over most of its track. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morocco | - | Multiple tree limbs were blown down in Morocco and a brick chimney was blown down. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morocco | - | A tree was blown down blocking County Road near Willow Flough. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morocco | - | Trees were knocked down on 114th St. |
| August 2025 | Hail | Morocco | - | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Hail | Morocco | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Morocco | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Morocco | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Morocco | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Morocco | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Morocco | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Hail | Morocco | - | no account filed |
| February 1996 | Hail | Morocco | - | 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 Morocco | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2374422 | 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 439442. 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.
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.