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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.

Milford within Barton County

Population over time

2 figures

Milford 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.

YearPeople Change
201026
202024-2 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

7 since 1992

Regional 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 burning6
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
30 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation189898-00625-07302019-1700
3 March 2018Debris and open burning3.7 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176089-00625-03032018-1457
11 March 2018Debris and open burning78 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176101-00625-03112018-1241
11 March 1997Debris and open burning40 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
11 March 1997Debris and open burning20 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
27 February 2014Debris and open burning100 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
20 February 1992Debris and open burning17 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barton County

Storms near this place

22 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2025Thunderstorm WindMilford$40,000Multiple trees and powerlines were reported down.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindMilford$5,000A 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 1998Thunderstorm WindMilford$4,000no account filed
April 2025FloodMilford-State Highway C at a Tributary of Horse Creek was flooded and impassable.
June 2024FloodMilford-State Highway C was closed due to flooding of Horse Creek.
June 2024Flash FloodMilford-State Highway C was closed due to flooding of Horse Creek.
May 2022FloodMilford-Highway C at the low water crossing on Horse Creek was closed due to flooding.
March 2021HailMilford-Quarter sized hail was reported.
August 2018Tornado (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 2009Flash FloodMilford-Excessive rain caused several roads across the county to flood.
May 2009Funnel CloudMilford-A large funnel cloud was observed by trained spotters just north of Milford near the Barton and Vernon county line.
October 2009Flash FloodMilford-State Highway C was flooded by Horse Creek.
March 2018HailMilford-no account filed
March 2017HailMilford-no account filed
July 2010HailMilford-no account filed
May 2009HailMilford-no account filed
March 2007HailMilford-no account filed
April 2007HailMilford-no account filed
July 2003HailMilford-no account filed
May 2002Flash FloodMilford-no account filed
April 1998HailMilford-no account filed
June 1998HailMilford-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Barton 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
Newport4.8 miles17
Bushnell6.1 miles17
Irwin6.8 miles16
Layneville7.0 miles16
Lamar8.9 miles16
Lamar Heights9.7 miles16
Kenoma10.2 miles17
Sherwood (historical)10.9 miles17

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 MilfordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3300225The 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.