Miller, Kansas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Waterloo Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66868. The Survey maps it on the Miller quadrangle. It stands 1,122 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 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 Burlingame quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Burlingame quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1947 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Miller quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
11 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Miller between 2015 and 2018, 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 August 2018 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 008-048 |
| 24 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 018-043 |
| 5 May 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Lyon County | 017-045 |
| 7 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1500029 |
| 7 April 2015 | Debris and open burning | 160 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 25 |
| 29 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 180105 |
| 10 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 018-020 |
| 11 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 180053 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
25 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Miller in 25 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 13 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 flash 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miller | $25,000 | High winds damaged a house and outbuildings. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miller | $2,000 | Winds to 81 mph did some structural damage to buildings in Miller. |
| June 2024 | Tornado (EFU) | Miller | - | A brief tornado developed east of I-335 in Lyon County. Several photos and reports of this tornado were received, but no damage was found as the tornado stayed largely over open|country. |
| July 2024 | Flood | Miller | - | KVOE radio reported One-hundred-and-forty-two-mile Creek was out of its bank. |
| July 2024 | Flood | Miller | - | Elm Creek out of its banks, many county roads damaged. Waters beginning to recede by 10am CST. |
| May 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miller | - | Estimated wind gusts of 55 to 60 mph. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Miller | - | Quarter sized hail reported. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Miller | - | Quarter size hail reported from mping. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miller | - | Wind gust of 60 mph reported. |
| May 2015 | Flash Flood | Miller | - | Flash flooding ongoing across all of Lyon county with 15 roads currently impassible. A creek in Americus has flooded several streets in town. |
| September 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miller | - | Wind gusts measured. |
| March 2009 | Hail | Miller | - | Spotter also estimated 55 mph wind gusts. |
| September 2020 | Hail | Miller | - | no account filed |
| September 2020 | Hail | Miller | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Miller | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Miller | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Miller | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Miller | - | no account filed |
| July 2011 | Hail | Miller | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Miller | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miller | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Miller | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miller | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Miller | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miller | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Admire | 6.0 miles | 15 | |
| Reading | 8.1 miles | 14 | |
| Allen | 9.6 miles | 16 | |
| Lang | 13.0 miles | 17 | |
| Bushong | 14.1 miles | 16 | |
| Americus | 16.9 miles | 15 | |
| Neosho Rapids | 18.3 miles | 16 | |
| Berkeley Hills | 18.3 miles | 18 |
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 Miller | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6859023 | 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 479282. 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.







