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Old Milan, Indiana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Franklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47031. The Survey maps it on the Pierceville quadrangle. It stands 974 feet above sea level.

Old Milan within Ripley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

Storms near this place

9 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Old Milan in 9 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 4 flood, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
March 2008FloodOld Milan$5,000Old Milan Road was flooded and closed between Roads 500E and 700N. Other roads were flooded across the county.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindOld Milan$4,000An outbuilding had some roof paneling blown off.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindOld Milan$4,000Some trees were downed along with a few power poles and lines.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindOld Milan$4,000A tree fell onto a power line.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindOld Milan$4,000Multiple trees were knocked down over a road. The largest was 2 feet in diameter.
July 2024FloodOld Milan-High water partially flooded a roadway.
May 2021FloodOld Milan-High water was reported across County Road 750 N between 600 E and Old Milan Road.
January 2019FloodOld Milan-High water was reported over East County Road 800 North to the west of North Spades Road.
March 2017HailOld Milan-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ripley 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
Milan1.7 miles13
Stumpke Corner2.2 miles11
Pierceville2.7 miles11
Prattsburg3.1 miles11
Negangards Corner3.7 miles9
Stringtown3.7 miles13
Delaware4.0 miles11
Behlmer Corner4.3 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 Old MilanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7084515The 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 440578. 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.

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.