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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.

Milroy within Redwood County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Milroy 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.

YearPeople Change
2010252
2020259+7 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

In the county-history sources

460 words on this township

The 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.

Read the whole chapter on Westline Township.

Storms near this place

25 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2011Thunderstorm WindMilroy$1,500,000A 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 2023HailMilroy-Picture via Twitter between Milroy and Tracy.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindMilroy-The Minnesota Department of Transportation wind sensor measured a wind gust of 54 knots.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindMilroy-A private weather wind sensor measured a wind gust of 51 knots.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindMilroy-Numerous trees, some up to the ten inches in diameter, were blown down from near Milroy, east to Lucan, Minnesota.
June 2010HailMilroy-Several reports of quarter size hail occurred from Milroy to Lucan, Minnesota.
May 2008HailMilroy-Hail covered the ground.
May 2008HailMilroy-Hail covered the ground to about one inch deep.
June 2005Funnel CloudMilroy-A trained spotter reported a funnel cloud.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindMilroy-Numerous large branches down.
July 1998HailMilroy-Large swath of hail damage across southern Redwood county.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindMilroy-Grain bin rolled over. Estimated windspeed.
July 2023HailMilroy-no account filed
July 2023Thunderstorm WindMilroy-no account filed
July 2023HailMilroy-no account filed
June 2013HailMilroy-no account filed
August 2012HailMilroy-no account filed
August 2005HailMilroy-no account filed
August 2005HailMilroy-no account filed
September 2005HailMilroy-no account filed
July 2004HailMilroy-no account filed
May 2002HailMilroy-no account filed
May 2002HailMilroy-no account filed
August 2002HailMilroy-no account filed
October 1996Thunderstorm WindMilroy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Redwood 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
Lucan7.6 miles9
Vesta9.6 miles9
Seaforth12.7 miles10
Walnut Grove14.2 miles9
Wabasso15.8 miles10
Revere16.7 miles9
Belview17.6 miles9
Wanda19.4 miles9

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 MilroyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2229242The 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.