Milford, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Milford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39862. It stands on Alligator Creek. The Survey maps it on the Leary quadrangle.

Milford within Baker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1953 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Leary quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Camilla quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

109 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Milford between 1992 and 2019, burning about 358 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 7 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 burning	77
Arson/incendiarism	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Smoking	5
Natural	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
8 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-BAKER-002
8 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	2.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1995	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 August 2017	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-BAKER-001
17 August 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-BAKER-004
1 August 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 July 2016	Debris and open burning	16 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-BAKER-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baker County

Storms near this place

11 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Milford in 11 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 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
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Milford	$50,000	Mitchell EMC facebook page reports numerous broken power poles, power lines down, and trees on the power lines across its service area with 1956 outages.
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Milford	$10,000	Baker County EMA reported minor damage to a mobile home.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Milford	$5,000	Numerous power outages occurred in Baker county as a line of storms with gusty winds moved through.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Milford	$5,000	Trees and power lines were blown down across Baker county.
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Milford	$1,000	A tree was blown down on Choice Goodman Road. Monetary damage was estimated.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Milford	-	Trees were blown down on Caney Creek Plantation.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Milford	-	Trees were blown down on Highway 216.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Milford	-	Several trees were blown down throughout Baker county.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Milford	-	Trees were blown down at Milford Church Road.
April 2012	Heavy Rain	Milford	-	The USGS rain gauge at the Ichawaynochaway Creek at Milford measured a 10 hour rainfall total of 3.04 inches.
October 1997	Tornado (F0)	Milford	-	F0 tornado reported in northwest Baker County. Several 12-24" diameter pines down along Georgia Highway 216 near Milford.

Every storm recorded in Baker 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Patmos	1.2 miles	8
Iveys Mill	2.3 miles	8
Dewsville (historical)	3.1 miles	8
Elmodel	4.5 miles	9
Crestview	5.2 miles	8
Jones Spur	5.8 miles	8
Bethany	5.9 miles	8
Mimsville	8.7 miles	8

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 Q65083309	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 318157. 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.

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.