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.
Population over time
2 figuresMilan 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 82 | |
| 2020 | 56 | -26 (-32%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 20 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.
- 1889 USGS Caldwell quadrangle1:125000
- 1893 USGS Caldwell quadrangle1:125000
- 1897 USGS Caldwell quadrangle1:125000, 10 printings
- 1955 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Wichita quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Milan quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Wellington quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
37 since 2015Regional 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/undetermined | 16 |
| Debris and open burning | 13 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 18022 |
| 18 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1500043 |
| 1 July 2017 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Sumner County | 17026 |
| 7 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 7 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 15 June 2017 | Natural | 15 acres | Sumner County | 17023 |
| 14 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 2 May 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 8 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
30 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Milan | $25,000 | Caused minimal damage to roof of a home. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milan | $500 | Some small limbs were knocked down. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milan | $300 | A trained spotter reported small tree limbs down. |
| March 2026 | Tornado (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 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milan | - | No damage was reported. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milan | - | No damage was reported. |
| April 2016 | Hail | Milan | - | The spotter was a member of a spotter network. |
| April 2012 | Tornado (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 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milan | - | Estimated using a handheld anemometer. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milan | - | Were were estimated at least 60 mph. |
| May 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milan | - | Measured by KWCH TV near the intersection of Highway 49 and 30th Street Road. |
| March 2008 | Tornado (EF0) | Milan | - | The tornado touched down briefly in an open field causing no damage. The report was submitted via KWCH TV. |
| June 2002 | Tornado (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 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milan | - | Tree limbs blown down. |
| August 2017 | Hail | Milan | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Milan | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Milan | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milan | - | no account filed |
| March 2008 | Hail | Milan | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Milan | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milan | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milan | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Hail | Milan | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Milan | - | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milan | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Milan | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Milan | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Milan | - | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Hail | Milan | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milan | - | 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.
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 Milan | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1902842 | 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 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.






