 The town began as Siding Number Two on the Sunset Railroad.According to a display at the West Kern Oil Museum, local residents asked the Southern Pacific Railroad if the station could be named "Moro" when the rails arrived in about 1900, but a railroad official declined because the name would be too easily confused with the coastal town of Morro Bay.Instead, the railroad directed the station be called Moron, a word which as yet had no association with stupidity.