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Milan, Kansas

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Ryan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67105. It stands on Silver Creek. The Survey maps it on the Milan quadrangle. 56 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,220 feet above sea level.

Milan within Sumner County

Population over time

2 figures

Milan fell from 82 to 56 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
201082
202056-26 (-32%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 20 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

37 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Milan between 2015 and 2020, burning about 146 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Debris and open burning13
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1
Smoking1

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
26 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service18022
18 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1500043
1 July 2017Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSumner County17026
7 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
7 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
15 June 2017Natural15 acresSumner County17023
14 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
2 May 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Service8

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sumner County

Storms near this place

30 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Milan in 30 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 13 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 5 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
May 2004Tornado (F0)Milan$25,000Caused minimal damage to roof of a home.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindMilan$500Some small limbs were knocked down.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindMilan$300A trained spotter reported small tree limbs down.
March 2026Tornado (EF1)Milan-An occluded tornado produced damage to a couple of outbuildings, and it moved several round hay bales. They were strewn on either side of the road. A couple small headstones in the cemetery were knocked over.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindMilan-No damage was reported.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindMilan-No damage was reported.
April 2016HailMilan-The spotter was a member of a spotter network.
April 2012Tornado (EF1)Milan-The tornado moved to the northeast and hit two homestead. One home sustained considerable damage to two covered porches and a barn. The other farm completely lost its barn.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindMilan-Estimated using a handheld anemometer.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindMilan-Were were estimated at least 60 mph.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindMilan-Measured by KWCH TV near the intersection of Highway 49 and 30th Street Road.
March 2008Tornado (EF0)Milan-The tornado touched down briefly in an open field causing no damage. The report was submitted via KWCH TV.
June 2002Tornado (F0)Milan-The same tornado that began 2 miles southeast of Freeport, this tornado crossed the Harper/Sumner county line at 1736, lifting 3 miles southwest of Milan.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindMilan-Tree limbs blown down.
August 2017HailMilan-no account filed
April 2009HailMilan-no account filed
May 2009HailMilan-no account filed
April 2009Thunderstorm WindMilan-no account filed
March 2008HailMilan-no account filed
May 2008HailMilan-no account filed
April 2005Thunderstorm WindMilan-no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindMilan-no account filed
April 2004HailMilan-no account filed
April 2003HailMilan-no account filed
March 2002Thunderstorm WindMilan-no account filed
May 2002HailMilan-no account filed
May 2002HailMilan-no account filed
May 2001HailMilan-no account filed
May 1997HailMilan-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindMilan-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sumner 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
Argonia4.9 miles19
Ewell5.6 miles20
Mayfield6.8 miles19
Conway Springs9.2 miles19
Anson10.6 miles19
Perth10.7 miles19
Roland11.5 miles14
Corbin11.5 miles19

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 MilanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1902842The 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 470177. 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.