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Milo, Iowa

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Belmont Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50166. The Survey maps it on the Milo quadrangle. 778 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 971 feet above sea level.

Milo within Warren County

On record in Milo

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

Milo grew from 775 to 778 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
2010775
2020778+3 (+0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Milo between 2009 and 2017, burning about 28 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
3 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 February 2017Debris and open burning25 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
15 October 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Warren County

Storms near this place

35 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Milo in 35 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 15 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 3 heavy rain. The reports record 1 death. 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
August 2000LightningMilo1 killed, $65,000no account filed
July 2014Flash FloodMilo$300,000Ditches are completely full and flowing through the town of Millo. Roughtly 80 percent of the town still had standing water in the yards up to 3 feet deep.
March 2008FloodMilo$50,000no account filed
May 2008Thunderstorm WindMilo$35,000A barn and trees were blown down in the 5700 block of 170th St.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindMilo$25,000Emergency Manager reported tree blown over by the thunderstorm winds. Estimated 2.5 feet in diameter.
July 2008FloodMilo$25,000no account filed
June 2014Thunderstorm WindMilo$15,000Large tree limbs and power lines were blown down.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindMilo$10,000Public reported, via mPING app, trees uprooted or snapped; roof blown off.
July 2016Flash FloodMilo$10,000Emergency Manager relayed report of road closure of 158th Ave south of Newbold St.
June 2010HailMilo$10,000no account filed
July 2008FloodMilo$10,000no account filed
September 2001HailMilo$10,000no account filed
April 2009Thunderstorm WindMilo$5,000One and one half foot diameter trees downed.
March 2007HailMilo$5,000no account filed
March 2006HailMilo$5,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindMilo$5,000no account filed
July 2005HailMilo$3,000no account filed
April 1998HailMilo$3,000no account filed
March 2006HailMilo$2,000no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindMilo$2,000no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindMilo$2,000no account filed
June 2001HailMilo$2,000no account filed
March 2006HailMilo$1,000no account filed
June 2025Heavy RainMilo-Personal weather station rainfall total of 4.51 inches through midnight.
September 2025Thunderstorm WindMilo-A least 2 large trees downed in Milo. Time estimated by radar.
April 2024Funnel CloudMilo-Funnel cloud reported near Milo. Location estimated by radar.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindMilo-Social media report of tree uprooted from the ground.
June 2021HailMilo-Report via mping of penny sized hail.
May 2020HailMilo-Emergency management reported quarter sized hail.
May 2020Heavy RainMilo-WOI replayed a public report of 2.25 inches of rain. Beginning and end time roughly estimated from radar.
April 2017HailMilo-Emergency manager reported quarter sized hail in the town of Milo.
April 2017HailMilo-Public reported quarter sized hail via social media.
April 2017HailMilo-Emergency manager reported quarter sized hail at 180th and Tripoli.
August 2014Heavy RainMilo-Rainfall of 3.75 inches in the past 24 hours.
July 2006HailMilo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Warren 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
Hammondsburgh (historical)1.9 miles9
Clarkson (historical)3.0 miles9
Ackworth5.4 miles9
Sandyville6.2 miles9
Liberty Center6.7 miles11
Lawrenceburg7.2 miles11
Beech7.5 miles9
Indianola7.6 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 MiloAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q726484The 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 459118. 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.