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Moro, Oregon

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Moro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97039. The Survey maps it on the Moro quadrangle. 367 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,799 feet above sea level.

Moro within Sherman County

On record in Moro

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

Population over time

3 figures

Moro grew from 337 to 367 between 2000 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
2000337
2010324-13 (-4%)
2020367+43 (+13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Moro between 2007 and 2017, burning about 21,067 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 August 2008Natural5,175 acresPrineville District0650 SAYRS 2
30 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined300 acresPrineville District1051
3 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined15,591 acresPrineville District0621
19 July 2012Power generation/transmission/distribution1.2 acresPrineville District0292

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sherman County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Moro: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lone RockStonePast Producer
Lone Rock PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hockman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hockman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Sherman County

Storms near this place

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moro in 1 storm report in 2013: 1 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
September 2013HailMoro-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sherman 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
De Moss Springs3.2 miles11
Erskine4.0 miles9
Monkland5.5 miles8
Boardman (historical)6.6 miles8
Wasco7.6 miles11
Locust Grove8.5 miles9
Grass Valley9.0 miles8
Klondike9.2 miles9

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 Q2384490The 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 1124367. 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.