Milton, Iowa
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52570. The Survey maps it on the Milton quadrangle. 380 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 797 feet above sea level.
On record in Milton
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
- Eisenhower Bridgelisted 1998
Population over time
2 figuresMilton fell from 443 to 380 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 | 443 | |
| 2020 | 380 | -63 (-14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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.
- 1954 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Milton quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Centerville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Milton in 2017, burning under an acre 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Storms near this place
15 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Milton in 15 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flash flood, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milton | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milton | $40,000 | no account filed |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milton | $4,000 | Sheriff department reported power lines down on county route V56. |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milton | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milton | - | Young June corn flattened in an area around Milton. |
| June 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Milton | - | Law enforcement reported a tornado that briefly touched down 2 times in a short period, and then lifted quickly. No damage reported. |
| June 2014 | Hail | Milton | - | A trained spotter reported penny size hail fell for 6 minutes. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milton | - | Wind gusts estimated to be 60 mph were observed near Milton, IA at 755 pm CDT June 26. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milton | - | Wind gusts estimated to be 70 mph blew down some trees in Milton, IA at 755 pm CDT June 26. |
| June 2011 | Flash Flood | Milton | - | To be determined. |
| April 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milton | - | Two power poles were blown down across Highway 2 about three miles west of Cantril. Winds were estimated at 75 mph. |
| December 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milton | - | Law enforcement reported a machine shed blown down. |
| March 2024 | Hail | Milton | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Milton | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Milton | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cantril | 5.3 miles | 7 | |
| Lebanon | 5.6 miles | 7 | |
| Pittsburg | 10.3 miles | 11 | |
| Keosauqua | 11.3 miles | 11 | |
| Pleasant Hill (historical) | 11.4 miles | 11 | |
| Leando | 11.7 miles | 7 | |
| Douds | 12.1 miles | 7 | |
| Mount Sterling | 12.8 miles | 13 |
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 Milton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1928357 | 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 459120. 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.




