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Milburn, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Arlington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42023. The Survey maps it on the Milburn quadrangle. It stands 482 feet above sea level.

Milburn within Carlisle County

On record in Milburn

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

21 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Milburn between 1998 and 2018, burning about 147 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/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking2
Debris and open burning1
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
4 September 2010Debris and open burning20 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDAVIS ROAD
30 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 1999Smoking10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 1999Smoking4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
31 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryGRUBBS ROA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carlisle County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Milburn: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mcgary MineClayProducer

Every working recorded in Carlisle County

Storms near this place

11 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Milburn in 11 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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
September 2011Thunderstorm WindMilburn$50,000On Kentucky Highway 548 near Kirbyton, three barns were damaged. Two of those barns were damaged extensively. Farm equipment was tossed about. Near Milburn, lots of tree limbs were blown down along with some downed trees. A flag pole and mailbox pole were snapped. Corn fields were flattened in the Kirbyton and Milburn area.
February 2008Thunderstorm WindMilburn$50,000The Milburn Baptist Church was damaged. Sections of roof were blown off of two homes along State Route 1371. A tree landed on the roof of a home along County Road 1120. A downed tree blocked both lanes of State Route 80 east.
May 2010FloodMilburn$20,000High water was over U.S. Highway 62 between Bardwell and Cunningham. County Road 1146 was closed in the Milburn area due to a washout.
February 1999Thunderstorm WindMilburn$20,000Numerous trees and limbs were down. Wind gusts across western Kentucky averaged from 45 to 55 MPH outside of thunderstorms. Isolated higher gusts between 60 and 70 MPH occurred in and near thunderstorms.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindMilburn$10,000Part of the roof of an old barn was blown off. The top of a silo was torn off.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindMilburn$6,000A roof was blown off a barn near Milburn.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindMilburn$1,000A few larger branches were blown down on Kentucky 1371 and State Route 307.
February 2025Flash FloodMilburn-Widespread flooding surrounded a mobile home on Highway 80.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindMilburn-Large tree limbs and a tree were blown down. Highway 80 was blocked.
May 2011Funnel CloudMilburn-no account filed
April 2003HailMilburn-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carlisle 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
Emmaus (historical)2.9 miles9
East Hopewell3.0 miles9
Kirbyton3.5 miles9
West Hopewell4.4 miles9
Saint Dennis (historical)4.7 miles9
Sharon (historical)4.7 miles9
Antioch (historical)5.1 miles9
Arlington6.0 miles16

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 MilburnAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690943The 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 498175. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.