Medora (/mɪˈdɔːrə/, mih-DOR-ə) is a city in Billings County, North Dakota, United States.

Medora was founded in 1883 along the transcontinental rail line of the Northern Pacific Railway by French nobleman Marquis de Mores, who named the city after his wife Medora von Hoffman.

[7] Marquis de Mores wanted to ship refrigerated meat to Chicago via the railroad.

He built a meat packing plant for this purpose and a house named the Chateau de Mores, which is now a museum.

[8] In the evening of April 7, 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt, who had visited and invested in ranches in the area in the 1880s,[9] visited Medora on a presidential tour of the Western United States.

[10] Roosevelt later recalled that "the entire population of the Badlands down to the smallest baby had gathered to meet me… They all felt I was their man, their old friend; and even if they had been hostile to me in the old days when we were divided by the sinister bickering and jealousies and hatreds of all frontier communities, they now firmly believed they had always been my staunch friends and admirers.

[12] In April 2021, a wildfire threatened Medora and caused the town to evacuate during its tourist season.

The racial makeup of the city was 93.8% White, 1.8% Native American, 3.6% Asian, and 0.9% from two or more races.

There were no families and 4.8% of the population living below the poverty line, including no under eighteens and 15.0% of those over 64.