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Mora County
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county in New Mexico, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- New Mexico
- Founded
- February 1, 1860
- Named after
- Mora, New Mexico
- Seat
- Mora
- Largest village
- Mora
- Total
- 1,934 sq mi (5,010 km )
- Land
- 1,931 sq mi (5,000 km )
- Water
- 2.3 sq mi (6.0 km ) 0.1%
- Estimate 2025
- 4,051
- Density
- 2.169/sq mi (0.8376/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−7 ( Mountain )
- Summer dst
- UTC−6 ( MDT )
- Congressional district
- 3rd
- Website
- countyofmora .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Population
- 4189
- Area
- 5008
- Official website
- countyofmora.com
- Image
- Mora County New Mexico Court House.jpg
- Households
- 2278
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- Commons category
- Mora County, New Mexico
- inception
- 1859-00-00
- water as percent of area
- 0.1
- native label
- Mora County
- per capita income
- 20662
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Article
Mora County (Spanish: Condado de Mora) is a county in the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of the 2020 census, its population was 4,189. Its county seat is the census-designated place (CDP) Mora. The county has another CDP, Watrous, a village, Wagon Mound, and 12 smaller unincorporated settlements. Mora became a formal county in the US, in what was then the New Mexico Territory, on February 1, 1860. Ecclesiastically, the county is within the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santa Fe. County population peaked at about 14,000 circa 1920, declining to about 4,000 to 5,000 since the 1970s; the 2018 estimate was 4,506.
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