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Moore is a city in Cleveland County, Oklahoma, United States, and is part of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area. The population was 55,081 at the 2010 census,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Moore city, Oklahoma )〕 making it the seventh largest city in the state of Oklahoma. Located between Oklahoma City and Norman, the city has been the site of several devastating tornadoes, with those occurring in 1999 and 2013 receiving national attention. ==History== The Moore post office was established May 27, 1889, during the Land Run of 1889 and was named for Al Moore, an Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway employee. According to the town history he was a "conductor or a brakeman, lived in a boxcar at the camp and had difficulty receiving his mail. He painted his name – "Moore" – on a board and nailed it on the boxcar. When a postmaster was appointed, he continued to call the settlement Moore. When the town incorporated in 1893 the name was legalized."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A Brief History of Moore )〕 The city's history notes that the community before the post office may have been called "Verbeck" by the railroad.〔 However, other histories indicate that Verbeck was actually the original name of the nearby telegraph station "Oklahoma" which became the basis for the founding of Oklahoma City.〔Kelley, E. H. "(WHEN OKLAHOMA CITY WAS SEYMOUR AND VERBECK )," ''Chronicles of Oklahoma''. (accessed October 2, 2013)〕 The community remained small until 1961, when it annexed , becoming a full-fledged city in 1962, which in turn increased its population from 1,221 in 1960 to 18,761 in 1970 and 55,081 in 2010.〔 Moore's 1961 annexation kept it an independent city at a time when Oklahoma City through annexations increased its size from to surrounding Moore on three sides (north, east, west). Norman forms its southern border.〔http://www.okchistory.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=138:explosive-growth&catid=40:events&Itemid=77〕 In 1966 the Hillsdale Free Will Baptist College, after moving through various locations around Oklahoma, opened in the community. The Moore post office turned into a branch of the Oklahoma City post office on January 7, 1972.〔 In the 1970s the city launched a "Smile America" campaign in which giant red, white and blue smileys were painted on the town water towers. A smiley also adorns the city's official logo (as does a water tower).〔http://www.triptrivia.com/step4.php?Submit=Submit&State=37&StartCity=14886〕 Some of the water towers now have a sign that says, "Moore - Home of Toby Keith."〔http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/our-country/toby-keith-expresses-sorrow-over-hometown-tornado-devastation-162412199.html〕〔http://www.thelostogle.com/2010/03/25/page-3-why-your-city-sucks-moore/〕 On September 24, 2014, at the local Vaughan Foods food processing plant, one employee was beheaded with a knife and another coworker had her throat slit and was injured, but survived. The alleged attacker, 30-year-old Alton Nolen, who was on suspension from the plant prior to the attack due to interactions with the employee who survived the attack, was shot and wounded by company owner Mark Vaughan. Nolen, who is alleged to have converted to Islam and was an extremist, will face charges of first-degree murder and assault and battery with a deadly weapon, and may also face federal charges as well.〔(Alton Nolen, Oklahoma beheading suspect, will be charged with 1st-degree murder ), Associated Press, September 27, 2014.〕〔("Oklahoma beheading suspect described as 'a little odd'" )〕 The attack followed a series of beheadings committed by the Islamic terrorist group ISIS. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Moore, Oklahoma」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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