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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.

Milton within Van Buren County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Milton 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.

YearPeople Change
2010443
2020380-63 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

1 since 2017

Regional 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 burning1

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
20 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Every fire recorded in Van Buren County

Storms near this place

15 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1994Thunderstorm WindMilton$50,000no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindMilton$40,000no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindMilton$4,000Sheriff department reported power lines down on county route V56.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindMilton$1,000no account filed
June 2021Thunderstorm WindMilton-Young June corn flattened in an area around Milton.
June 2015Tornado (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 2014HailMilton-A trained spotter reported penny size hail fell for 6 minutes.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindMilton-Wind gusts estimated to be 60 mph were observed near Milton, IA at 755 pm CDT June 26.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindMilton-Wind gusts estimated to be 70 mph blew down some trees in Milton, IA at 755 pm CDT June 26.
June 2011Flash FloodMilton-To be determined.
April 2008Thunderstorm WindMilton-Two power poles were blown down across Highway 2 about three miles west of Cantril. Winds were estimated at 75 mph.
December 2001Thunderstorm WindMilton-Law enforcement reported a machine shed blown down.
March 2024HailMilton-no account filed
May 2019HailMilton-no account filed
July 2010HailMilton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Van Buren 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
Cantril5.3 miles7
Lebanon5.6 miles7
Pittsburg10.3 miles11
Keosauqua11.3 miles11
Pleasant Hill (historical)11.4 miles11
Leando11.7 miles7
Douds12.1 miles7
Mount Sterling12.8 miles13

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 MiltonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1928357The 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.