The Moore plate. Relief from Copernicus GLO-30; rivers and lakes from USGS NHD; watersheds from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset; roads and city limits from Census TIGER 2024.
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−20° on Nov. 16, 1955, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1914. Next is −8° in 1978.
Moore’s center stands about 5,470 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 5,420 ft to 7,080 ft, a difference of 1,660 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is King Mountain, about 10,570 ft, 6 miles east-northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Alluvial deposits (gravel, sand, silt), from the Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 7 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 4×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Dacite, andesite, rhyolite. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Gravel. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Gravel, sand, silt. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Dolostone, limestone, sandstone. Age: Ordovician to Devonian, 359 to 487 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Age: Carboniferous to Permian, 252 to 324 million years old. About 0.9 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 1 smaller unit along the line are not listed.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR; rock from the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation.
Moore has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 86° in July; winter nights fall to about 7° in January. A normal year brings about 24 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 9 inches of water.
On November 14 Moore normally reaches 43° and falls to 20°. The record high is 63°, in 1999; the record low −3°, in 1959. The most rain on this date, 0.49 in, fell in 1981.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1914 at Arco, 8 miles south-southeast, 140 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
