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.
Population over time
2 figuresMildred 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 28 | |
| 2020 | 25 | -3 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 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.
- 1885 USGS Garnett quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Garnett quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1947 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Kincaid quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Garnett quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Garnett quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
30 since 2015Regional 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/undetermined | 13 |
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 16 July 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 15 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | MF18-26 |
| 12 July 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1851071 |
| 6 June 2018 | Smoking | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 156 |
| 7 May 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1556011 |
| 13 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1851055 |
| 19 April 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 2009Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2009 | Hail | Mildred | $10,000 | Quarter 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 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mildred | $7,750 | Winds 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 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mildred | - | A barn was blown over that was filled with livestock. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mildred | - | Dispatch relayed a report of 60 to 70 mph winds with pea sized hail. The officer was just northwest of Moran. |
| April 2016 | Flood | Mildred | - | Sections of Utah Rd were flooded. |
| April 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mildred | - | Estimated 60 mph wind gust was reported. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mildred | - | 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 2020 | Hail | Mildred | - | 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 Mildred | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2073574 | 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 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.








