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Milford, Kentucky

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Brooksville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41064. It stands on Coleman Branch. The Survey maps it on the Claysville quadrangle. It stands 607 feet above sea level.

Milford within Bracken County

On record in Milford

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

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

North Fork Bridge, Spanning North Fork of Licking River, Milford, Bracken County, KY
North Fork Bridge, Spanning North Fork of Licking River, Milford, Bracken County, KY
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

4 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Milford in 2004, burning about 5 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/undetermined4

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
10 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bracken County

Storms near this place

19 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Milford in 19 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 9 thunderstorm wind, 6 flood, 3 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
April 2020Thunderstorm WindMilford$100,000Seven to eight barns were destroyed and numerous trees were knocked down across the county.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindMilford$5,000Numerous trees knocked down.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindMilford$3,000Several trees were downed.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindMilford$3,000A few trees were downed.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindMilford$3,000Trees were knocked down.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindMilford$2,000A couple of trees were knocked down along KY-19 in the southern part of the county.
April 2011FloodMilford$2,000Roads were closed due to heavy rainfall.
March 2008FloodMilford$2,000Santa Fe Road was flooded.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindMilford$1,500A large tree was blown down across a portion of Kentucky Route 19.
April 2011Flash FloodMilford$1,000Water was covering roadways due to heavy rainfall.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindMilford$500A tree was downed on Riley Mill Road near Milford.
January 2023Flash FloodMilford-Numerous roads were closed due to high water, particularly in the Milford area.
August 2018Flash FloodMilford-Water was reported rushing over a portion of Santa Fe Road.
February 2018FloodMilford-A few roads were closed due to flooding.
February 2018FloodMilford-Kentucky Route 539 was closed due to high water in two places near Milford.
March 2015FloodMilford-Mattox Road closed due to high water.
April 2015FloodMilford-Milford Road was closed due to flooding.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindMilford-Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
March 1995HailMilford-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bracken 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
Santa Fe2.0 miles6
Belmont (historical)2.6 miles6
Petra3.2 miles7
Neave5.1 miles6
Oakland (historical)5.4 miles6
Powersville5.7 miles8
Willow5.8 miles6
Parina (historical)6.8 miles8

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 MilfordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q25021840The 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 498188. 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.