According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 22.2 square miles (57.4 km 2), of which 21.8 square miles (56.5 km 2) is land and 0.35 square miles (0.9 km 2), or 1.52%, is water. Moore is located just south of Oklahoma City and north of Norman, in central Oklahoma. A jury recommended that he receive the death penalty, and, on December 15, 2017, a judge sentenced Nolen to death by lethal injection. Nolen was convicted of murder and assault in October 2017. 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. 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. Some of the water towers now have a sign that says, "Moore - Home of Toby Keith." A smiley also adorns the city's official logo (as does a water tower). 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. The Moore post office turned into a branch of the Oklahoma City post office on January 7, 1972.
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In 1966 the Hillsdale Free Will Baptist College, after moving through various locations around Oklahoma, opened in the community.
Moore's 1961 annexation kept it an independent city at a time when Oklahoma City through annexations increased its size from 25 square miles (65 km 2) to 643 square miles (1,670 km 2) surrounding Moore on three sides (north, east, west). The community remained small until 1961, when it annexed 21.6 square miles (56 km 2), 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. 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. The city's history notes that the community before the post office may have been called "Verbeck" by the railroad. When the town incorporated in 1893 the name was legalized." When a postmaster was appointed, he continued to call the settlement Moore. He painted his name – "Moore" – on a board and nailed it on the boxcar. 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. 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. The 3 costliest tornadoes in Oklahoma history all occurred in Moore. Located between Oklahoma City and Norman, the city has been the site of several devastating tornadoes, with those occurring in 19 receiving international attention. The population was 62,793 at the 2020 census, making Moore the seventh-largest city in the state of Oklahoma. Moore is a city in Cleveland County, Oklahoma, United States, and is part of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area.
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