Mora, Minnesota Mora, Minnesota Mora is a city in and the county seat of Kanabec County in East Central Minnesota. It is located at the junction of Minnesota State Highways 23 and 65. The population was 3,571 at the 2010 census. Mora was platted in 1882. The city was named after Mora, Sweden. A post office has been in operation at Mora since 1883. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water. Mora is located 72 miles north of Minneapolis and St. Paul at the intersection of Minnesota
Mora, New Mexico de Cristo Mountains where an isolated Spanish-speaking community (based on Mora) confront a threatening world of change. The settlement is mentioned in Willa Cather's 1927 historical novel "Death Comes for the Archbishop"(Book Two, Chapter 2), about the establishment of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santa Fe. Mora was also in Louis L'Amour's Western novel "The Daybreakers", in which the character Orrin Sackett is the fictional marshal of Mora. Mora, New Mexico Mora or is a census-designated place in, and the county seat of, Mora County, New Mexico, United States. It is located about halfway between Las Vegas, and Taos on