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Miltona, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Miltona Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56354. The Survey maps it on the Lake Miltona East quadrangle. 431 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,407 feet above sea level.

Miltona within Douglas County

Population over time

2 figures

Miltona grew from 424 to 431 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
2010424
2020431+7 (+2%)

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.

Fires near this place

17 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Miltona between 1992 and 2018, burning about 334 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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
Debris and open burning13
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
6 May 2018Debris and open burning190 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 May 1993Arson/incendiarism13 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 May 1997Debris and open burning7.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 May 1992Debris and open burning10 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
18 May 2009Equipment and vehicle use3.1 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
11 May 1996Debris and open burning1.0 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 April 1999Debris and open burning12 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
29 April 1996Debris and open burning25 acresMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Miltona: 3 producers, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Douglas County Clay DepositClayOccurrence
Hanson Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
R & R MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Wonderlake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

15 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Miltona in 15 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 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
May 2011Thunderstorm WindMiltona-Several trees and a few power lines were blown down near the intersection of County Road 14 and Sandy Beach Road. An old barn also collapsed.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindMiltona-Trees downed across road.
June 2005Tornado (F0)Miltona-Trained spotters reported a funnel cloud extending close to the ground just west of Miltona, but their view was obstructed by trees so they could not say for certain if the funnel touched the ground. However, citizens photographed it touching down on Lake Miltona.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindMiltona-Two trees and numerous large limbs were downed.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindMiltona-A downed tree barely missed a house 2 miles south of Rose City.
May 2003HailMiltona-Hail covered ground.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindMiltona-Numerous trees down around Miltona and Lake Irene, including one on a garage and another on a deck. One tree was blown down onto a van, but the family inside the van was not injured.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindMiltona-Estimated winds. Roof ripped off home. Auto damaged.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindMiltona-Numerous trees down. Estimated windspeed.
July 2024HailMiltona-no account filed
May 2018HailMiltona-no account filed
July 2010HailMiltona-no account filed
August 2001HailMiltona-no account filed
August 2001HailMiltona-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindMiltona-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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
Spruce Center4.0 miles9
Belle River4.9 miles9
Carlos4.9 miles11
Rose City7.0 miles9
Leaf Valley8.8 miles9
Hiview Park10.0 miles11
Nelson10.8 miles11
Alexandria11.9 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 MiltonaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1004406The 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 647897. 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.