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Milan, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Kragero Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56262. The Survey maps it on the Milan quadrangle. 428 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,030 feet above sea level.

Milan within Chippewa County

Population over time

3 figures

Milan grew from 326 to 428 between 2000 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.

YearPeople Change
2000326
2010369+43 (+13%)
2020428+59 (+16%)

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

2 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Milan between 2000 and 2003, burning about 3,201 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
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Debris and open burning1

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
12 April 2003Debris and open burning3,191 acresMinnesota Department of Natural ResourcesCHIPPEWA PRAIRIE
2 March 2000Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chippewa County

Storms near this place

27 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Milan in 27 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 13 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 1 tornado. 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 2023FloodMilan$75,000A combination of record setting seasonal snowfall, high snow water equivalent values, and rapid snow melt led to low lying areas, ditches, and ravines across the county to flood for a prolonged period of time. Road infrastructure such as bridges, gravel roads, and culverts experience varied degrees of damage caused by rapid runoff. Chippewa County Emergency Management reported $75,600 in damages to roads and bridges.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindMilan$5,000Several power lines were blown down.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindMilan-Report of numerous large trees down between Milan and Chippewa County Road 32.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindMilan-Photos were provided of snapped power pole and several large tree limbs down onto a house. The chaser noted no convergent damage.
May 2022Tornado (EF0)Milan-A brief tornado developed about 3 miles north northwest of Milan. It uprooted several trees and then moved into Swift County where it significantly damaged farm outbuildings. Maximum winds for the Chippewa County portion were estimated at 70 mph.
March 2019FloodMilan-Numerous roads were closed for several days due to snow melt, and the flood waters that develop from it. Rapidly runoff led to impassable roads, especially along streams and creeks along county roads.
March 2009FloodMilan-Township road washed out near Milan. Dry Weather Creek, north of Montevideo running very high.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindMilan-Numerous large trees downed around town. Power lines also toppled.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindMilan-Three large circular grain bins blown over.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindMilan-Four inch tree limbs down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindMilan-Numerous trees downed; some were snapped.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindMilan-Estimated winds. Steel siding ripped off barn. Numerous trees down in Milan, some on houses.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindMilan-Barn collapse. Estimated windspeed.
August 2013HailMilan-no account filed
May 2012HailMilan-no account filed
August 2012HailMilan-no account filed
June 2012HailMilan-no account filed
June 2010HailMilan-no account filed
May 2008HailMilan-no account filed
June 2007HailMilan-no account filed
July 2001HailMilan-no account filed
July 2000HailMilan-no account filed
September 1999HailMilan-no account filed
September 1999HailMilan-no account filed
May 1996HailMilan-no account filed
June 1996HailMilan-no account filed
October 1996Thunderstorm WindMilan-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chippewa 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
Churchill6.5 miles10
Hagan7.8 miles9
Big Bend City7.9 miles9
Watson9.0 miles10
Montevideo15.2 miles10
Gracelock18.1 miles10
Wegdahl20.7 miles10
Louriston24.5 miles10

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 MilanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1924803The 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 647837. 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.