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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.

Miller within Lyon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

11 since 2015

Regional 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
3 August 2018Debris and open burning10 acresKansas Forest Service008-048
24 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKansas Forest Service018-043
5 May 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresLyon County017-045
7 April 2015Debris and open burning20 acresKansas Forest Service1500029
7 April 2015Debris and open burning160 acresKansas Forest Service25
29 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service180105
10 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKansas Forest Service018-020
11 March 2018Debris and open burning6.0 acresKansas Forest Service180053

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lyon County

Storms near this place

25 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1995Thunderstorm WindMiller$25,000High winds damaged a house and outbuildings.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindMiller$2,000Winds to 81 mph did some structural damage to buildings in Miller.
June 2024Tornado (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 2024FloodMiller-KVOE radio reported One-hundred-and-forty-two-mile Creek was out of its bank.
July 2024FloodMiller-Elm Creek out of its banks, many county roads damaged. Waters beginning to recede by 10am CST.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindMiller-Estimated wind gusts of 55 to 60 mph.
July 2023HailMiller-Quarter sized hail reported.
May 2020HailMiller-Quarter size hail reported from mping.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindMiller-Wind gust of 60 mph reported.
May 2015Flash FloodMiller-Flash flooding ongoing across all of Lyon county with 15 roads currently impassible. A creek in Americus has flooded several streets in town.
September 2015Thunderstorm WindMiller-Wind gusts measured.
March 2009HailMiller-Spotter also estimated 55 mph wind gusts.
September 2020HailMiller-no account filed
September 2020HailMiller-no account filed
May 2014HailMiller-no account filed
April 2012HailMiller-no account filed
April 2012HailMiller-no account filed
April 2011HailMiller-no account filed
July 2011HailMiller-no account filed
July 2008HailMiller-no account filed
May 2002Thunderstorm WindMiller-no account filed
August 2002HailMiller-no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindMiller-no account filed
August 2002HailMiller-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindMiller-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lyon 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
Admire6.0 miles15
Reading8.1 miles14
Allen9.6 miles16
Lang13.0 miles17
Bushong14.1 miles16
Americus16.9 miles15
Neosho Rapids18.3 miles16
Berkeley Hills18.3 miles18

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 MillerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6859023The 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.