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.
Then and now
1886 to 1994The 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.


Population over time
2 figuresMilford 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 167 | |
| 2020 | 147 | -20 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 22 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1886 USGS Honey Lake quadrangle1:250000
- 1891 USGS Honey Lake quadrangle1:250000
- 1893 USGS Honey Lake quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1950 USGS Milford quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Westwood quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Westwood quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Westwood quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Susanville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS Susanville quadrangle1:250000
- 1977 USGS Milford quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Susanville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Milford quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
73 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 49 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Plumas National Forest | MCDERMOT |
| 4 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Plumas National Forest | STILES |
| 4 September 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Plumas National Forest | EAST |
| 25 September 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Plumas National Forest | not named |
| 25 September 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Plumas National Forest | not named |
| 24 September 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Plumas National Forest | not named |
| 16 September 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Plumas National Forest | not named |
| 16 September 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Plumas National Forest | not named |
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corona | Copper | Prospect | ||
| Honey Lake Gold Mines | Gold, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Honey Lake Gold Mines Badger Group | Gold, Silver | Occurrence | 1900 | |
| Honey Lake Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Princess Gold Mining Co | Gold | Unknown | ||
| Princess Gold Mining Co. | Gold | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
3 since 2018Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2018 | Heavy Rain | Milford | - | 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 2018 | Heavy Rain | Milford | - | Mesonet station LAFC1, 6 miles south of Honey Lake reported 0.60 inches of rain from 13 March 0400PST to 14 March 0510PST. |
| April 2018 | Heavy Rain | Milford | - | 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. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Herlong Junction | 7.4 miles | 23 | |
| Buntingville | 9.9 miles | 21 | |
| Edgemont | 10.4 miles | 21 | |
| Edgemont (historical) | 10.4 miles | 21 | |
| Patton Village | 11.7 miles | 21 | |
| Janesville | 11.8 miles | 22 | |
| Herlong | 12.7 miles | 21 | |
| Standish | 13.6 miles | 21 |
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 Milford | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6851689 | The 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.











