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Milliken, Colorado

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Johnstown-Milliken census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80543. The Survey maps it on the Milliken quadrangle. 8,386 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,751 feet above sea level.

Milliken within Weld County

On record in Milliken

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Milliken grew from 5,610 to 8,386 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
20105,610
20208,386+2,776 (+49%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

217 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 217 fires within 5 miles of Milliken between 2010 and 2020, burning about 200 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 were 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined183
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism6
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersPLATTEVILLE
5 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMilliken Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersLASALLE
3 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWeld CountyUNKNOWN
3 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWeld CountyUNKNOWN
3 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWeld CountyUNKNOWN
23 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMilliken Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN
21 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMilliken Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Weld County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Milliken: 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownFire Clay (Refractory)Occurrence

Every working recorded in Weld County

Storms near this place

4 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Milliken in 4 storm reports between 1996 and 2004: 2 tornado, 1 hail, 1 lightning. 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
October 2004Tornado (F1)Milliken-A small tornado touched down and caused minor wind damage to nearby homes.
August 2004Tornado (F0)Milliken-A tornado touched down but did no damage.
July 2004LightningMilliken-Lightning struck the roof of a home and sparked a fire. As a result of the fire, a part of the ceiling collapsed into the dining room of the home. The homeowners, with the help of some neighbors, were able to extinguish the fire before the fire department arrived.
August 1996HailMilliken-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Weld 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
Hillsboro0.5 miles20
Adna1.6 miles20
Dent1.8 miles20
Johnstown3.1 miles20
Fort Saint Vrain (historical)3.5 miles20
Clark3.7 miles20
Hardman4.1 miles20
Elm4.1 miles20

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 MillikenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1910256The 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 180708. 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.