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Mildred, Kansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Osage Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66755. It stands on Coal Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kincaid quadrangle. 25 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,063 feet above sea level.

Mildred within Allen County

Population over time

2 figures

Mildred fell from 28 to 25 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
201028
202025-3 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

30 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Mildred between 2015 and 2020, burning about 285 acres 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Debris and open burning9
Equipment and vehicle use7
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
22 July 2020Equipment and vehicle use10 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
16 July 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Servicenot named
15 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKansas Forest ServiceMF18-26
12 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresKansas Forest Service1851071
6 June 2018Smokingunder an acreKansas Forest Service156
7 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Service1556011
13 May 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service1851055
19 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Allen County

Storms near this place

8 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mildred in 8 storm reports between 2009 and 2020: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flood. 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
July 2009HailMildred$10,000Quarter inch hail driven by wind gusts to 60 mph lasted for almost ten minutes and shredded the vinyl siding of a homestead. The hail also blasted out several windows to the home.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindMildred$7,750Winds estimated at 60 mph, accompanied by quarter sized hail produced widespread damage to a farmstead. The winds knocked down a large tree limb that crashed into the house. Another sycamore tree was knocked down, covering a car on the property.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindMildred-A barn was blown over that was filled with livestock.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindMildred-Dispatch relayed a report of 60 to 70 mph winds with pea sized hail. The officer was just northwest of Moran.
April 2016FloodMildred-Sections of Utah Rd were flooded.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindMildred-Estimated 60 mph wind gust was reported.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindMildred-Winds estimated at 80 mph and quarter size hail produced a swath of damage to cornfields from east of Mildred, Kansas to just west of Bronson, Kansas. The damaging winds and hail reduced corn fields to little more than bent and broken stocks. The damage continued into Bourbon county, Kansas.
July 2020HailMildred-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Allen 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
Bayard2.1 miles17
Moran7.4 miles17
La Harpe10.0 miles18
Gas11.6 miles18
Carlyle11.8 miles18
Iola13.9 miles18
Bassett14.9 miles18
Elsmore15.8 miles17

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 MildredAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2073574The 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 478129. 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.