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Moore, Montana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Lewistown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59464. The Survey maps it on the Moore quadrangle. 194 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,160 feet above sea level.

Moore within Fergus County

Population over time

2 figures

Moore grew from 193 to 194 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
2010193
2020194+1 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Moore in 2017, burning about 4 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
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
11 August 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNortheastern Land Officenot named
9 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNortheastern Land Officenot named
8 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNortheastern Land Officenot named
2 July 2017Equipment and vehicle use2.3 acresNortheastern Land Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fergus County

Storms near this place

27 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moore in 27 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 15 hail, 5 tornado, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
August 1998Tornado (F1)Moore$35,000no account filed
August 1998Tornado (F0)Moore$4,000no account filed
July 2025Thunderstorm WindMoore$1,000Spotter reported tree limbs up to 8 inches in diameter blown off of their cottonwood tree. Time estimated by radar.
July 2022HailMoore-Pictures submitted by broadcast media of 1.25 inch hail in Moore.
June 2019HailMoore-Storm chaser reports hail of 1.25 inches in diameter.
July 2019FloodMoore-A trained spotter reported an estimate of 1 to 2 inches of rain, with flood water reaching up to the height of the seal rim on truck tires.
August 2014Heavy RainMoore-Heavy rain, measuring 3.60 inches storm total, was reported.
July 2013HailMoore-Hail measuring 1.50 inches (ping pong ball sized) was reported 10 mi S of Moore, MT.
July 2013HailMoore-Hail measuring 1.75 inches (golf ball sized) was reported 5 mi SE of Moore, MT.
July 2013HailMoore-Hail measuring 1.75 inches (golf ball sized) was reported 5 mi SE of Moore, MT.
June 2008HailMoore-A severe thunderstorm dropped .75 inch diameter hail at Moore 4S.
May 2007HailMoore-A severe thunderstorm dropped 0.88 inch diameter hail at Moore 10SE.
June 2007HailMoore-A severe thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Moore 6S.
June 2007HailMoore-A severe thunderstorm dropped 1.5 inch diameter hail at Moore 8SE.
July 2007HailMoore-A severe thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail at Moore. The hail shredded numerous gardens and crops.
July 2002HailMoore-A severe thunderstorm produced 2.00 inch hail and 2 funnel clouds near Moore.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindMoore-A severe thunderstorm produced a 70 mph wind gust and broke some tree limbs near Moore.
June 2002Tornado (F0)Moore-A severe thunderstorm moved across the far eastern portions of Judith Basin County and into the far western sections of Fergus county around 2000 MST. Wind gusts to near 70 mph were reported from Hobson to Hilger, with 60 mph winds recorded in Lewistown A tornado did touch down just west of Buffalo at approximately 2000 MST, and then moved northeast into central Fergus county. The tornado finally dissipated about 10 miles southeast of Moore. This tornado made several brief touchdowns, and was an F0. The longest tornado path on the ground was less than one half mile. Wind gusts between 60 and 70 mph were reported along the entire path. One shed was destroyed, and the remainder of the damage was limited to objects not secured down. Near 1930 MST, a small ultra-light plane was damaged while trying to land south of Lewistown. Wind gusts were estimated near 60 mph.
June 2001HailMoore-Reported by spotter in Moore.
June 2001HailMoore-Actual spotter location is Moore 5 W.
June 2001HailMoore-Reported by spotter in Moore.
June 2001HailMoore-Actual spotter location is Crystal Lake (Moore 15 SE).
July 2001Thunderstorm WindMoore-Reported by spotter in Moore.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindMoore-Pickup truck blown off road by estimated 80-85 kt winds...1 inch diameter hail accumulated to 1 1/2 feet deep in spots causing fields to appear white...Monetary damage amounts unknown.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindMoore-Blew down several cottonwood trees.
June 1999Tornado (F0)Moore-no account filed
August 1998Tornado (F0)Moore-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fergus 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
Eddies Corner2.6 miles11
Seright (historical)3.0 miles11
Rockford (historical)4.9 miles11
King Ranch Colony6.4 miles8
Ross Fork7.0 miles8
Glengarry8.7 miles8
Straw9.7 miles11
Cottonwood9.9 miles8

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 MooreAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q961414The 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 774361. 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.