Milford, Missouri
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Milford Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64759. It stands on Hyder Branch. The Survey maps it on the Milford quadrangle. 24 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 922 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMilford fell from 26 to 24 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 | 26 | |
| 2020 | 24 | -2 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 16 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.
- 1886 USGS Nevada quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Nevada quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1947 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Joplin quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Milford quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Nevada quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Nevada quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
7 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Milford between 1992 and 2019, burning about 260 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 July 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 189898-00625-07302019-1700 |
| 3 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 3.7 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 176089-00625-03032018-1457 |
| 11 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | 78 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 176101-00625-03112018-1241 |
| 11 March 1997 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 11 March 1997 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 27 February 2014 | Debris and open burning | 100 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 20 February 1992 | Debris and open burning | 17 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
22 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Milford in 22 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 10 hail, 4 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milford | $40,000 | Multiple trees and powerlines were reported down. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milford | $5,000 | A National Weather Service storm survey determined that straight line winds of 65 mph damaged multiple trees and caused minor roof damage to a church between State Highways A and F. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milford | $4,000 | no account filed |
| April 2025 | Flood | Milford | - | State Highway C at a Tributary of Horse Creek was flooded and impassable. |
| June 2024 | Flood | Milford | - | State Highway C was closed due to flooding of Horse Creek. |
| June 2024 | Flash Flood | Milford | - | State Highway C was closed due to flooding of Horse Creek. |
| May 2022 | Flood | Milford | - | Highway C at the low water crossing on Horse Creek was closed due to flooding. |
| March 2021 | Hail | Milford | - | Quarter sized hail was reported. |
| August 2018 | Tornado (EF0) | Milford | - | A National Weather Service storm survey determined that a brief EF-0 tornado touched down near North MO Highway A. The tornado was short-lived lasting nearly 2 minutes before ending near the intersection of North MO Highway A and NE 90th Road. Max winds estimated at 74 mph, width of 25 yards, and a path length of 0.25 miles. |
| March 2009 | Flash Flood | Milford | - | Excessive rain caused several roads across the county to flood. |
| May 2009 | Funnel Cloud | Milford | - | A large funnel cloud was observed by trained spotters just north of Milford near the Barton and Vernon county line. |
| October 2009 | Flash Flood | Milford | - | State Highway C was flooded by Horse Creek. |
| March 2018 | Hail | Milford | - | no account filed |
| March 2017 | Hail | Milford | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Milford | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Milford | - | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Hail | Milford | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Milford | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Milford | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Flash Flood | Milford | - | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Hail | Milford | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Milford | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newport | 4.8 miles | 17 | |
| Bushnell | 6.1 miles | 17 | |
| Irwin | 6.8 miles | 16 | |
| Layneville | 7.0 miles | 16 | |
| Lamar | 8.9 miles | 16 | |
| Lamar Heights | 9.7 miles | 16 | |
| Kenoma | 10.2 miles | 17 | |
| Sherwood (historical) | 10.9 miles | 17 |
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 Milford | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3300225 | 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 722316. 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.









