Editing Moro, Oregon

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{{Infobox settlement
| official_name            = Moro, Oregon
| settlement_type          = [[City]]
| image_skyline            = Moro Oregon Main Street 20060818.jpg
| imagesize                = 250px
| image_caption            = Moro, viewed looking down [[U.S. Highway 97]], the town's main street
| image_flag               = 
| image_seal               = 
| nickname                 = 
| motto                    = 
| image_map                = Sherman_County_Oregon_Incorporated_and_Unincorporated_areas_Moro_Highlighted.svg
| mapsize                  = 250px
| map_caption              = Location in [[Oregon]]
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| coordinates              = {{coord|45|29|02|N|120|44|00|W|region:US-OR_type:city_source:gnis|display=inline,title}}
| subdivision_type         = Country
| subdivision_name         = United States
| subdivision_type1        = [[U.S. state|State]]
| subdivision_type2        = [[List of counties in Oregon|County]]
| subdivision_name1        = [[Oregon]]
| subdivision_name2        = [[Sherman County, Oregon|Sherman]]
| established_title        = [[Municipal corporation|Incorporated]]
| established_date         = 1899
| government_type          = 
| leader_title             = [[Mayor]]
| leader_name              = Robert Perisho{{citation needed|date=November 2023}}
| area_footnotes           = <ref name="TigerWebMapServer">{{cite web|title=ArcGIS REST Services Directory|url=https://tigerweb.geo.census.gov/arcgis/rest/services/TIGERweb/Places_CouSub_ConCity_SubMCD/MapServer/5/query?where=STATE='41'&outFields=NAME,STATE,PLACE,AREALAND,AREAWATER,LSADC,CENTLAT,CENTLON&orderByFields=PLACE&returnGeometry=false&returnTrueCurves=false&f=json|publisher=United States Census Bureau|accessdate=October 12, 2022}}</ref>
| area_magnitude           = 
| area_total_km2           = 1.28
| area_total_sq_mi         = 0.50
| area_land_km2            = 1.28
| area_land_sq_mi          = 0.50
| area_water_km2           = 0.00
| area_water_sq_mi         = 0.00
| elevation_footnotes      = <ref name=gnis/>
| elevation_ft             = 1850
| population_total         = 367
| population_as_of         = [[2020 United States census|2020]]
| population_footnotes     = <ref name="USCensusDecennial2020CenPopScriptOnly"/>
| population_density_km2   = 285.69
| population_density_sq_mi = 739.92
| postal_code_type       = [[ZIP code]]
| postal_code            = 97039
| area_code              = [[Area code 541|541]]
| website                = [http://www.cityofmoro.net www.cityofmoro.net]
| footnotes              = 
| timezone               = [[Pacific Standard Time Zone|Pacific]]
| utc_offset             = &minus;8
| timezone_DST           = Pacific
| utc_offset_DST         = &minus;7
| blank_name             = [[Federal Information Processing Standard|FIPS code]]
| blank_info             = 41-50000<ref name="GR2">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=2008-01-31|title=U.S. Census website}}</ref>
| blank1_name            = [[Geographic Names Information System|GNIS]] feature ID
| blank1_info            = 2411166<ref name=gnis>{{GNIS|2411166}}</ref>
|pop_est_footnotes       = 
|unit_pref               = Imperial
}}

'''Moro''' is a city in [[Sherman County, Oregon|Sherman County]], [[Oregon]], United States. The population was 324 at the [[2010 United States Census|2010 census]]. It is the [[county seat]] of [[Sherman County, Oregon|Sherman County]].<ref name="GR6">{{cite web|url=http://www.naco.org/Counties/Pages/FindACounty.aspx|access-date=2011-06-07|title=Find a County|publisher=National Association of Counties}}</ref> It’s currently the least-populous county seat in Oregon. Moro was incorporated on February 17, 1899, by the [[Oregon Legislative Assembly]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Leeds|first=W. H.|year=1899|title=Special Laws|journal=The State of Oregon General and Special Laws and Joint Resolutions and Memorials Enacted and Adopted by the Twentieth Regular Session of the Legislative Assembly|publisher=State Printer|location=Salem, Oregon|page=1008|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gsCwAAAAIAAJ&q=%22ocean%20grove%22%20seaside%20oregon&pg=PA1008}}</ref> It was named for [[Moro, Illinois]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Church |first=Foster |date=October 2, 2009 |title=Moro, an Oregon town living large |url=https://www.oregonlive.com/travel/2009/10/moro_oregon.html |work=[[The Oregonian]] |accessdate=October 10, 2021}}</ref>

==Geography and climate==
According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the city has a total area of {{convert|0.49|sqmi|sqkm|2}}, all of it land.<ref name="Gazetteer files">{{cite web|title=US Gazetteer files 2010 |url=https://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/files/Gaz_places_national.txt |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]] |access-date=2012-12-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120125061959/http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/files/Gaz_places_national.txt |archive-date=2012-01-25 }}</ref>

Moro has a [[Mediterranean climate]] ([[Köppen climate classification|Köppen]] ''Csb'') with hot, dry summers with cool mornings, and chilly, wetter winters. During the summer, afternoons are very warm to hot and generally very clear: the median rainfall is only {{convert|0.11|in|mm|1|disp=or}} in August and {{convert|0.13|in|mm|1|disp=or}} in July, and more than one-fifth of months in this period have no more than a trace of rain. Between June 15 and September 18 of 1932 there were ninety-six days without even a trace of rainfall. Temperatures will reach {{convert|90|F|C|1|disp=or}} on an average of twenty afternoons, though {{convert|100|F|C|1|disp=or}} can be expected only twice each year. The hottest temperature on record has been {{convert|111|F|C|1}} on July 27 of 1939. Summer mornings are comfortable: as early as August 29, 1980 temperatures of {{convert|31|F|C|1}} were reported. Winters are cold if not usually severe: maxima top freezing on all but twenty afternoons and only two mornings each winter will fall to or below {{convert|0|F|C|1|disp=or}}, with the coldest temperature being {{convert|&minus;22|F|C}} on January 26 and 27 of 1957, and the coldest maximum temperature {{convert|&minus;7|F|C|1}} on December 31, 1968. By the middle of spring afternoon temperatures are typically extremely pleasant at around {{convert|60|F|disp=or}}, but mornings remain chilly well into spring and the last freeze can be expected around May 7.

Precipitation is very low due to the rain shadow of the Cascades and the valley location, being around {{convert|4|in|mm|-1|disp=or}} lower than even the driest areas in the Olympic [[rain shadow]] like [[Sequim, Washington|Sequim]]. The wettest month on record has been December 1964 with {{convert|6.11|in|mm|1}}, but no other month has passed {{convert|5|in|mm|1|disp=or}}. The wettest "rain year" has been from July 1947 to June 1948 with {{convert|17.51|in|mm|1}} and the driest from July 1967 to June 1968 with {{convert|5.49|in|mm|1}}, whilst he most precipitation in one day has been {{convert|1.67|in|mm|1}} on January 9, 1953.

Snowfall averages {{convert|17|in|m|2|disp=or}}, but varies greatly between years: in January 1950 {{convert|54.4|in|m|2}} fell and led to a total of {{convert|65|in|m|2}} for the full season, but in many years there is little snow – there was only a trace of snowfall between July 1957 and June 1958, only {{convert|2.6|in|m}} between July 2002 and June 2003, and {{convert|3.0|in|m}} between July 1976 and June 1977.

{{Weather box
 | width       = auto
 | collapsed   = yes
 | single line = yes
 | location    = Moro, Oregon (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1898, 1917–present)
 | Jan record high F  = 68
 | Feb record high F  = 68
 | Mar record high F  = 75
 | Apr record high F  = 89
 | May record high F  = 100
 | Jun record high F  = 113
 | Jul record high F  = 111
 | Aug record high F  = 110
 | Sep record high F  = 100
 | Oct record high F  = 88
 | Nov record high F  = 72
 | Dec record high F  = 65
 | year record high F = 
 | Jan high F = 40.1
 | Feb high F = 44.9
 | Mar high F = 52.3
 | Apr high F = 58.8
 | May high F = 67.4
 | Jun high F = 74.3
 | Jul high F = 84.0
 | Aug high F = 83.8
 | Sep high F = 75.8
 | Oct high F = 62.2
 | Nov high F = 48.4
 | Dec high F = 39.5
 | year high F = 61.0
 | Jan mean F = 32.3
 | Feb mean F = 35.5
 | Mar mean F = 41.2
 | Apr mean F = 46.7
 | May mean F = 54.5
 | Jun mean F = 60.7
 | Jul mean F = 68.5
 | Aug mean F = 68.2
 | Sep mean F = 60.6
 | Oct mean F = 49.2
 | Nov mean F = 38.5
 | Dec mean F = 31.8
 | year mean F = 49.0
 | Jan low F = 24.5
 | Feb low F = 26.2
 | Mar low F = 30.1
 | Apr low F = 34.5
 | May low F = 41.6
 | Jun low F = 47.0
 | Jul low F = 53.0
 | Aug low F = 52.6
 | Sep low F = 45.4
 | Oct low F = 36.2
 | Nov low F = 28.7
 | Dec low F = 24.2
 | year low F = 37.0
 | Jan record low F  = -22
 | Feb record low F  = -15
 | Mar record low F  = 1
 | Apr record low F  = 18
 | May record low F  = 18
 | Jun record low F  = 27
 | Jul record low F  = 34
 | Aug record low F  = 31
 | Sep record low F  = 21
 | Oct record low F  = 7
 | Nov record low F  = -9
 | Dec record low F  = -20
 | year record low F = 
 | precipitation colour   = green
 | Jan precipitation inch = 1.47
 | Feb precipitation inch = 1.06
 | Mar precipitation inch = 0.97
 | Apr precipitation inch = 0.96
 | May precipitation inch = 0.96
 | Jun precipitation inch = 0.57
 | Jul precipitation inch = 0.18
 | Aug precipitation inch = 0.20
 | Sep precipitation inch = 0.43
 | Oct precipitation inch = 1.06
 | Nov precipitation inch = 1.54
 | Dec precipitation inch = 1.61
 | year precipitation inch = 11.01
 | unit precipitation days = 0.01 in
 | Jan precipitation days  = 11.1
 | Feb precipitation days  = 8.9
 | Mar precipitation days  = 9.5
 | Apr precipitation days  = 9.2
 | May precipitation days  = 7.5
 | Jun precipitation days  = 4.8
 | Jul precipitation days  = 1.8
 | Aug precipitation days  = 1.7
 | Sep precipitation days  = 2.9
 | Oct precipitation days  = 8.3
 | Nov precipitation days  = 11.6
 | Dec precipitation days  = 12.2
 | year precipitation days = 89.5
 | Jan snow inch = 5.3
 | Feb snow inch = 2.5
 | Mar snow inch = 0.7
 | Apr snow inch = 0.0
 | May snow inch = 0.0
 | Jun snow inch = 0.0
 | Jul snow inch = 0.0
 | Aug snow inch = 0.0
 | Sep snow inch = 0.0
 | Oct snow inch = 0.2
 | Nov snow inch = 2.2
 | Dec snow inch = 5.7
 | year snow inch = 16.6
 | unit snow days = 0.1 in
 | Jan snow days  = 3.8
 | Feb snow days  = 1.7
 | Mar snow days  = 0.6
 | Apr snow days  = 0.0
 | May snow days  = 0.0
 | Jun snow days  = 0.0
 | Jul snow days  = 0.0
 | Aug snow days  = 0.0
 | Sep snow days  = 0.0
 | Oct snow days  = 0.0
 | Nov snow days  = 1.0
 | Dec snow days  = 3.5
 | year snow days = 10.6
 | source = [[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration|NOAA]]<ref name="NOWData">{{cite web
|url = https://www.weather.gov/wrh/climate?wfo=pdt
|title = NOWData - NOAA Online Weather Data
|publisher = National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
|access-date = December 11, 2023}}</ref><ref name="NCEI">{{cite web
|url = https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/services/data/v1?dataset=normals-monthly-1991-2020&stations=USC00355734&format=pdf&dataTypes=MLY-TMAX-NORMAL,MLY-TMIN-NORMAL,MLY-TAVG-NORMAL,MLY-PRCP-NORMAL,MLY-SNOW-NORMAL
|title = Summary of Monthly Normals 1991-2020
|publisher = National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
|access-date = December 11, 2023}}</ref>
}}

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
|1900= 335
|1910= 378
|1920= 418
|1930= 352
|1940= 309
|1950= 359
|1960= 327
|1970= 290
|1980= 336
|1990= 292
|2000= 337
|2010= 324
|2020= 367
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref name="DecennialCensus">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|access-date=June 4, 2015}}</ref><ref name="USCensusDecennial2020CenPopScriptOnly">{{cite web|url=https://api.census.gov/data/2020/dec/pl?get=P1_001N,NAME&for=place:*&in=state:41&key=5ccd0821c15d9f4520e2dcc0f8d92b2ec9336108|title=Census Population API|publisher=United States Census Bureau|accessdate=Oct 12, 2022}}</ref>
}}

===2010 census===
As of the [[census]]<ref name ="wwwcensusgov">{{cite web|title=U.S. Census website|url=https://www.census.gov|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=2012-12-21}}</ref> of 2010, there were 324 people, 149 households, and 86 families residing in the city. The [[population density]] was {{convert|661.2|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|1}}. There were 163 housing units at an average density of {{convert|332.7|/sqmi|/km2|1}}. The racial makeup of the city was 92.6% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 3.1% [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]], 2.8% from [[Race (U.S. Census)|other races]], and 1.5% from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]] people of any race were 4.0% of the population.

There were 149 households, of which 21.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 47.7% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 8.1% had a female householder with no husband present, 2.0% had a male householder with no wife present, and 42.3% were non-families. 36.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 18.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.17 and the average family size was 2.85.

The median age in the city was 48.1 years. 19.4% of residents were under the age of 18; 7.1% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 17.7% were from 25 to 44; 30.3% were from 45 to 64; and 25.6% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 47.2% male and 52.8% female.

===2000 census===
As of the census<ref name="GR2" /> of 2000, there were 337 people, 133 households, and 94 families residing in the city. The population density was {{convert|696.4|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. There were 150 housing units at an average density of {{convert|310.0|/sqmi|/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. The racial makeup of the city was 92.58% White, 1.19% [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]], 1.19% Native American, 0.30% [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]], 3.26% from [[Race (United States Census)|other races]], and 1.48% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino people of any race were 5.34% of the population.

There were 133 households, out of which 35.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 52.6% were married couples living together, 15.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 29.3% were non-families. 27.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 16.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.53 and the average family size was 3.10.

In the city, the population was spread out, with 30.9% under the age of 18, 6.5% from 18 to 24, 22.3% from 25 to 44, 23.1% from 45 to 64, and 17.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females, there were 97.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.2 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $35,625, and the median income for a family was $40,625. Males had a median income of $35,313 versus $15,417 for females. The [[per capita income]] for the city was $14,887. About 14.7% of families and 16.8% of the population were below the [[poverty line]], including 19.0% of those under age 18 and 9.8% of those age 65 or over.

==References==
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==External links==
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* [https://sos.oregon.gov/blue-book/Pages/local/cities/l-r/moro.aspx Listing for Moro] in the ''[[Oregon Blue Book]]''
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131123022735/http://www.sherman-county.com/agri_business_moro.asp Profile of Moro from Sherman County]

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[[Category:Cities in Oregon]]
[[Category:County seats in Oregon]]
[[Category:Cities in Sherman County, Oregon]]
[[Category:1899 establishments in Oregon]]
[[Category:Populated places established in 1899]]