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Milford, California

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Honey Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96121. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Milford quadrangle. 147 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,222 feet above sea level.

Milford within Lassen County

Then and now

1886 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 108 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Milford, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Milford, surveyed 1886

Population over time

2 figures

Milford fell from 167 to 147 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010167
2020147-20 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 22 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

73 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Milford between 1992 and 2020, burning about 394 acres in total. 49 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Natural49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use7
Debris and open burning4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 September 2019Naturalunder an acrePlumas National ForestMCDERMOT
4 September 2019Naturalunder an acrePlumas National ForestSTILES
4 September 2003Naturalunder an acrePlumas National ForestEAST
25 September 1994Naturalunder an acrePlumas National Forestnot named
25 September 1994Naturalunder an acrePlumas National Forestnot named
24 September 1994Naturalunder an acrePlumas National Forestnot named
16 September 1993Naturalunder an acrePlumas National Forestnot named
16 September 1993Naturalunder an acrePlumas National Forestnot named

Every fire recorded in Lassen County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Milford: 2 occurrences, 1 prospect, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Gold, Silver, Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
CoronaCopperProspect
Honey Lake Gold MinesGold, SilverPast Producer
Honey Lake Gold Mines Badger GroupGold, SilverOccurrence1900
Honey Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Princess Gold Mining CoGoldUnknown
Princess Gold Mining Co.GoldOccurrence

Every working recorded in Lassen County

Storms near this place

3 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Milford in 3 storm reports in 2018: 3 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2018Heavy RainMilford-Mesonet D5597 3 miles east-southeast of Honey Lake reported 0.71 inches of rainfall in a 24-hour period from 24 December 0700PST to 25 December 0700PST.
March 2018Heavy RainMilford-Mesonet station LAFC1, 6 miles south of Honey Lake reported 0.60 inches of rain from 13 March 0400PST to 14 March 0510PST.
April 2018Heavy RainMilford-Mesonet station D5697, 3 miles east-southeast of Honey Lake (elevation 4259 feet) reported 1.56 inches of rainfall in a 24 hour period from 6 April 0709PST to 7 April 0709PST.

Every storm recorded in Lassen County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Herlong Junction7.4 miles23
Buntingville9.9 miles21
Edgemont10.4 miles21
Edgemont (historical)10.4 miles21
Patton Village11.7 miles21
Janesville11.8 miles22
Herlong12.7 miles21
Standish13.6 miles21

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on MilfordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6851689The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1659126. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.