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.
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
Octagon Barn, Otter Townshiplisted 1986
Population over time
2 figuresMilo 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 775 | |
| 2020 | 778 | +3 (+0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1910 USGS Milo quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Milo quadrangle1:24000
- 1969 USGS Des Moines quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Indianola quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
3 since 2009Regional 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 burning | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 15 October 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
35 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2000 | Lightning | Milo | 1 killed, $65,000 | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Flash Flood | Milo | $300,000 | Ditches 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 2008 | Flood | Milo | $50,000 | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milo | $35,000 | A barn and trees were blown down in the 5700 block of 170th St. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milo | $25,000 | Emergency Manager reported tree blown over by the thunderstorm winds. Estimated 2.5 feet in diameter. |
| July 2008 | Flood | Milo | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milo | $15,000 | Large tree limbs and power lines were blown down. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milo | $10,000 | Public reported, via mPING app, trees uprooted or snapped; roof blown off. |
| July 2016 | Flash Flood | Milo | $10,000 | Emergency Manager relayed report of road closure of 158th Ave south of Newbold St. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Milo | $10,000 | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Flood | Milo | $10,000 | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Hail | Milo | $10,000 | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milo | $5,000 | One and one half foot diameter trees downed. |
| March 2007 | Hail | Milo | $5,000 | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Milo | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milo | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Milo | $3,000 | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Hail | Milo | $3,000 | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Milo | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milo | $2,000 | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milo | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Milo | $2,000 | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Milo | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 2025 | Heavy Rain | Milo | - | Personal weather station rainfall total of 4.51 inches through midnight. |
| September 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milo | - | A least 2 large trees downed in Milo. Time estimated by radar. |
| April 2024 | Funnel Cloud | Milo | - | Funnel cloud reported near Milo. Location estimated by radar. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milo | - | Social media report of tree uprooted from the ground. |
| June 2021 | Hail | Milo | - | Report via mping of penny sized hail. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Milo | - | Emergency management reported quarter sized hail. |
| May 2020 | Heavy Rain | Milo | - | WOI replayed a public report of 2.25 inches of rain. Beginning and end time roughly estimated from radar. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Milo | - | Emergency manager reported quarter sized hail in the town of Milo. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Milo | - | Public reported quarter sized hail via social media. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Milo | - | Emergency manager reported quarter sized hail at 180th and Tripoli. |
| August 2014 | Heavy Rain | Milo | - | Rainfall of 3.75 inches in the past 24 hours. |
| July 2006 | Hail | Milo | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hammondsburgh (historical) | 1.9 miles | 9 | |
| Clarkson (historical) | 3.0 miles | 9 | |
| Ackworth | 5.4 miles | 9 | |
| Sandyville | 6.2 miles | 9 | |
| Liberty Center | 6.7 miles | 11 | |
| Lawrenceburg | 7.2 miles | 11 | |
| Beech | 7.5 miles | 9 | |
| Indianola | 7.6 miles | 11 |
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 Milo | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q726484 | 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 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.






