Miltonvale, Kansas
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Starr Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67466. The Survey maps it on the Miltonvale quadrangle. 440 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,371 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMiltonvale fell from 539 to 440 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 | 539 | |
| 2020 | 440 | -99 (-18%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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.
- 1891 USGS Clay Center quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Miltonvale quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Clay Center quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Miltonvale between 2007 and 2020, burning about 35 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 | 4 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 March 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 1501 |
| 5 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 30 March 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Cloud County | not named |
| 13 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 8 October 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this place
45 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Miltonvale in 45 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 27 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miltonvale | $2,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds damaged several farm houses and took down trees. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Miltonvale | - | Hail was covering the ground. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miltonvale | - | Delayed report of a large tree and shed blown down, with winds estimated 70 to 80 mph. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miltonvale | - | Report from observer. |
| May 2023 | Tornado (EFU) | Miltonvale | - | A storm chaser had photos of a small tornado that was on the ground for approximately 2 minutes just WSW of Miltonvale. No damage was noted or reported. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Miltonvale | - | Quarter sized hail reported. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miltonvale | - | Trained spotter reported a 75 mph wind gust. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miltonvale | - | The wind gust was estimated. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miltonvale | - | Tree limbs 12 inches in diameter are down. A trampoline was blown on to a roof. Winds were estimated to be 70 MPH. Time estimated by radar. |
| May 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Miltonvale | - | Chaser Report of a tornado along with reports of tree limb damage along a path combined with radar data suggests that a tornado traveled along a track for approx. 8 miles between Miltonvale and Clyde. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miltonvale | - | Tree limbs up to 8 inches in diameter down. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miltonvale | - | Roof blown off house and tree blown into house. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miltonvale | - | Tree limbs down and pea size hail. |
| June 2011 | Flood | Miltonvale | - | Just west of Miltonvale, 4 to 5 feet of water covered Camp Road. |
| May 2007 | Tornado (EF1) | Miltonvale | - | Just after the tornado crossed the Cloud County line from Ottawa County, it destroyed a barn, damaged trees and the roof of a home, tore the roof off of a mobile home, and damaged power lines. Further north along the path, trees and outbuildings were destroyed, and two homes received minor damage. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miltonvale | - | Three to four inch diameter tree limbs down. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miltonvale | - | Large tree limbs reported down. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miltonvale | - | A dumpster was blown across a yard. Power was out at spotter's location. Tree limbs were also blown down. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Miltonvale | - | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Hail | Miltonvale | - | no account filed |
| July 2018 | Hail | Miltonvale | - | no account filed |
| October 2016 | Hail | Miltonvale | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Miltonvale | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Miltonvale | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Miltonvale | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Miltonvale | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Miltonvale | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Miltonvale | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Miltonvale | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Miltonvale | - | no account filed |
| February 2007 | Hail | Miltonvale | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Miltonvale | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Miltonvale | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Miltonvale | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miltonvale | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Miltonvale | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Miltonvale | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Miltonvale | - | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Hail | Miltonvale | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Miltonvale | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Miltonvale | - | no account filed |
| March 1998 | Hail | Miltonvale | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Miltonvale | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Miltonvale | - | no account filed |
| March 1995 | Hail | Miltonvale | - | 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 Miltonvale | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2505577 | 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 476158. 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.





