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Milan, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Milan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31060. The Survey maps it on the Milan quadrangle. 613 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 312 feet above sea level.

Milan within Telfair County

Population over time

2 figures

Milan fell from 700 to 613 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
2010700
2020613-87 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 8 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

394 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 394 fires within 5 miles of Milan between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,103 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 81 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
Debris and open burning233
Arson/incendiarism81
Equipment and vehicle use31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Natural17
Recreation and ceremony7
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
7 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-TELFAIR-014
30 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-TELFAIR-021
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined116 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-TELFAIR-013
26 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019TELFAIR002
26 September 1996Natural1.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020DODGE013
25 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2013-TELFAIR-011

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Telfair County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Milan: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Aluminum, Titanium. 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
Georgia Bauxite DistrictAluminum, TitaniumProducerWEATHERING RESIDUAL

Every working recorded in Telfair County

Storms near this place

10 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Milan in 10 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
April 2011Thunderstorm WindMilan$250,000The Telfair County Emergency Management Director reported that several trees and power lines were down across the county. However, much of the damage occurred in the Lumber City area in the far southeastern part of the county. Here, one unit of the Village Square Apartments was destroyed and three other units sustained minor to moderate damage.
March 2005Flash FloodMilan$100,000The Telfair Enterprise reported that early morning heavy rain, on the order of four inches or more, resulted in damage to several county roads. County Road 13 and County Road 106, between McRae and Milan were washed out and would require extensive repair. A pair of large sinkholes had developed on County Road 13 from the pressure of the extensive runoff. Drainage pipes were washed out from the under the roads and swept quite some distance away from their original location.
January 2017Thunderstorm WindMilan$50,000The Telfair County Emergency Manager reported numerous trees and power lines blown down across the northern end of the county. A house at the intersection of Highway 280 and Bethel Church Road had shingles blown off of the roof and a shed destroyed. In the Whatley vineyard area, around the intersection of Highway 341 and Whatley Farm Road, 20-25 trees were uprooted or snapped.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindMilan$30,000Thunderstorm winds uprooted trees, resulting in downed power lines and the lost of electricity.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindMilan$5,000The Telfair County 911 Center reported that dozens of trees were down across the northern part of the county from Milan on the Dodge/Telfair county line to McRae in the northeast part of the county near the Wheeler county line. A couple of roads were blocked, but no structural damage was reported.
September 2017Thunderstorm WindMilan$1,000The Telfair County 911 center reported a tree blown down in Milan near Highway 280.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindMilan$1,000The Telfair County Emergency Manager reported that at least four trees were blown down in the Milan area.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindMilan$1,000The Telfair County 911 Center reported that two to three trees were down in the far northern part of the county near McRae.
June 2023HailMilan-Milan post office reported quarter sized hail.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindMilan-Trees down on Milan Cemetery Road and Temperance Road.

Every storm recorded in Telfair 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
Cobbville8.1 miles7
Workmore8.7 miles7
Helena8.8 miles9
McRae9.3 miles9
Temperance9.9 miles7
Sharon10.3 miles7
Neily10.4 miles7
China Hill11.4 miles7

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 MilanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2752635The 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 318146. 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.