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Millerton, Iowa

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50165. The Survey maps it on the Corydon quadrangle. 36 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,073 feet above sea level.

Millerton within Wayne County

Population over time

2 figures

Millerton fell from 45 to 36 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
201045
202036-9 (-20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

11 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Millerton between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,525 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism1
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
6 May 2016Smokingunder an acreIowa Department of Natural ResourcesCHARITON VOL FD
7 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2013Debris and open burning50 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
21 April 2018Debris and open burning80 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
16 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
31 March 2015Debris and open burning150 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
30 March 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this place

8 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Millerton in 8 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 3 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud, 1 tornado. 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 2024Tornado (EF1)Millerton$250,000This tornado began northwest of the intersection of Raccoon Road and 150th street. The tornado almost immediately impacted a large implement shed and an older wooden barn. The shed was completely destroyed and thrown northeast across 150th street into an adjacent farm field. The barn collapsed downward and shifted to the southeast. The tornado continued northeast through mostly empty cropland and rolling terrain. Some damage was done toward the end of the path near the intersection of Timber Road and 165th street with downed trees and minor outbuilding damage.
May 2013Flash FloodMillerton$50,000Water over County Road J22 just east of Millerton.
July 2010Flash FloodMillerton$50,000Estimated 7 feet of water sitting on County Road J22 in an underpass with a car stalled.
July 2008Flash FloodMillerton$50,000Highway J22 was closed and inundated by high water near the railroad underpass. Several other gravel roads were inundated throughout the county.
September 2000HailMillerton$10,000no account filed
April 2003HailMillerton$5,000no account filed
April 2001HailMillerton$5,000no account filed
September 2016Funnel CloudMillerton-Trained spotter reported a funnel cloud almost to the ground. Delayed report.

Every storm recorded in Wayne 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
Ovia0.8 miles12
New York2.4 miles12
Bethelhem5.0 miles11
Cambria5.2 miles12
Peoria5.9 miles12
Corydon6.4 miles12
Bridgeport7.7 miles11
Confidence9.6 miles11

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 MillertonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q548253The 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 459114. 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.