Milroy, Minnesota
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Westline Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56263. The Survey maps it on the Milroy quadrangle. 259 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,109 feet above sea level.
On record in Milroy
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 1 record
Milroy State Bank Buildinglisted 1980
Population over time
2 figuresMilroy grew from 252 to 259 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 | 252 | |
| 2020 | 259 | +7 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1953 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Milroy quadrangle1:24000
- 1967 USGS New Ulm quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Tracy quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
460 words on this townshipThe History of Redwood County, Minnesota, published 1916 names this settlement in its chapter on Westline Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
"Westline township is located in the northwest part of Redwood county bordering on the west side, and embraces Congressional township 111-39. It is bounded on the north by Underwood, on the east by Granite Rock, on the south by Gales townships, and on the west by Lyon county. The surface is generally rolling, but marshy in some places. The Evan-Marshall division of the Chicago and Northwestern passes through it in a northwest direction in the central part. Its only village is Milroy. The trading centers are Milroy, Lucan and Redwood Falls, in Redwood county, and Marshall in Lyon county. There are five school houses. The predominating nationality is German, Scandinavian and American.
Passage source: The History of Redwood County, Minnesota, published 1916.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Storms near this place
25 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Milroy in 25 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 16 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milroy | $1,500,000 | A long-lived and complex storm moved into western Redwood County around 322 PM CST, and moved northeast across mainly the northern 1/3 of the county before moving into portions of far southeast Yellow Medicine County and western Renville County. ||Several hundred trees were either snapped or uprooted along with damage to several outbuildings and large grain storage bins. There were also reported areas of crops destroyed but either the wind or hail. Based on the damage reports and radar imagery, wind speeds were likely sustained above 70 to 90 mph, (isolated 100 mph wind gusts) for 10 to 15 minutes in any given location as the storm traversed the county. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Milroy | - | Picture via Twitter between Milroy and Tracy. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milroy | - | The Minnesota Department of Transportation wind sensor measured a wind gust of 54 knots. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milroy | - | A private weather wind sensor measured a wind gust of 51 knots. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milroy | - | Numerous trees, some up to the ten inches in diameter, were blown down from near Milroy, east to Lucan, Minnesota. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Milroy | - | Several reports of quarter size hail occurred from Milroy to Lucan, Minnesota. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Milroy | - | Hail covered the ground. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Milroy | - | Hail covered the ground to about one inch deep. |
| June 2005 | Funnel Cloud | Milroy | - | A trained spotter reported a funnel cloud. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milroy | - | Numerous large branches down. |
| July 1998 | Hail | Milroy | - | Large swath of hail damage across southern Redwood county. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milroy | - | Grain bin rolled over. Estimated windspeed. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Milroy | - | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milroy | - | no account filed |
| July 2023 | Hail | Milroy | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Milroy | - | no account filed |
| August 2012 | Hail | Milroy | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Milroy | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Milroy | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Milroy | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | Milroy | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Milroy | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Milroy | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Milroy | - | no account filed |
| October 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milroy | - | 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 Milroy | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2229242 | 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 647895. 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.
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.





