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Milo, Missouri

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Drywood Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64767. The Survey maps it on the Nevada quadrangle. 57 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 879 feet above sea level.

Milo within Vernon County

Population over time

2 figures

Milo fell from 90 to 57 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
201090
202057-33 (-37%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 21 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

7,494 words on this township

History of Vernon County, Missouri : Past and Present, Including an Account of the Cities, Towns and Villages of the County, published 1911 names this settlement in its chapter on Drywood Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The first postoffice in the southern part of Vernon county was at the residence of Judge William Hudson, who was the first postmaster. The office was called Drywood. After Judge Hud¬ son the next postmaster was Judge James Grace. After the war Peter Teel had charge of the office for many years. Then it was moved a mile to the eastward, and when Milo was estab¬ lished the office was discontinued or practically removed to Milo.

Passage source: History of Vernon County, Missouri : Past and Present, Including an Account of the Cities, Towns and Villages of the County, published 1911.

Milo Baptist Church was organized December 5, 1885. Many of the original members had been connected with West Fork Baptist church. Among them were J. H. Sheets, Rufus W. Sheets, Mrs. Frances Sheets, W. B. Sheets, Ella M. Thornton, Ella J. Thornton, Susan Slow, Addie Baskett, 0. G. B. Cline, Melissa Cline, Mary E. Cline, Bettie Guthrie, John T. Hill, Mary E. Hill, Martha A. Deeper, Matt Webb, Adela Webb, Edith Webb, Mary Webb, John and Martha Fields. The folloAving were additional constituent members of Milo church: J. H. Lloyd and Avife, R. J. Dale and Avife, Mary BroAvnwell, John W. Curtis, Dr. John Ford and Avife, Joseph Ford, Thomas J. Shouse. Mary F. Shouse, Fmma Shouse, Mary Smith, William Northcroft and Avife and Emma Northcroft. Present pastor, 1911, Rev. S. B. Moon.

Passage source: History of Vernon County, Missouri : Past and Present, Including an Account of the Cities, Towns and Villages of the County, published 1911.

The village of Milo is situated in the northeastern part of Drywood township on lot 8 of the northwest quarter of section 2, and is a station on the Lexington and Southern railroad, divi¬ sion of the Missouri Pacific. It was laid out October 14, 1881, by J. L. Samples and Mary M. Samples.

Passage source: History of Vernon County, Missouri : Past and Present, Including an Account of the Cities, Towns and Villages of the County, published 1911.

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 Drywood Township - it names this place 7 more 7 times.

Fires near this place

10 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Milo between 2003 and 2018, burning about 68 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 burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
4 August 2018Debris and open burning1.9 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177398-10882-08042018-1525
4 August 2018Debris and open burning1.3 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177399-10882-08042018-1731
1 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.7 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177397-10882-08012018-1258
15 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177305-10882-07152018-1835
30 June 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
16 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
14 March 2014Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
24 February 2015Smoking7.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation118850-10882-02242015-1218

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Vernon County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Milo: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead. 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
Prairie DiggingsLeadPast Producer

Every working recorded in Vernon County

Storms near this place

23 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Milo in 23 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 12 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 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 2013HailMilo$500,000Golf ball size hail broke windows. The estimate damage cost for the entire county including the city of Nevada will be included in this report.
August 2013Flash FloodMilo$5,000A portion of Stockade Road was reported as washed out by flood waters.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindMilo$2,000no account filed
May 2023HailMilo-Ping pong ball sized hail was reported in a mostly rural area along with winds estimated at 60 mph.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindMilo-A wind gust estimated at 60 mph was reported via MPing.
May 2018HailMilo-Quarter size hail fell as well as a tree was blown over.
August 2018Heavy RainMilo-The public reported that 2.00 inches of rain fell in approximately 45 minutes, between 8 and 9am.
April 2014Tornado (EF0)Milo-Several reports from the public revealed a brief tornado touchdown over rural and wooded land south of Nevada and west of Milo with several trees and large branches blown down. One eye witness captured the tornado on video and another witness captured a detailed picture of the tornado on the ground. The land area where the trees were down was in an area that is remote and had no road access. Time and location was estimated by witnesses and radar. Winds were estimated at 70 mph.
May 2010Flash FloodMilo-State Route BB east of Stockade was closed due to high water.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindMilo-A few large trees were reported down along Pyree Road.
September 2010Flash FloodMilo-Several rural roads were reported covered with flowing water and impassable south of Nevada.
May 2007FloodMilo-Flooding continued over sections of Vernon County after several periods of heavy rain.
May 2007FloodMilo-Excessive rain caused flooding at the intersection of Highway BB and Stockadge Road.
April 2015HailMilo-no account filed
July 2013HailMilo-no account filed
May 2012HailMilo-no account filed
May 2007HailMilo-no account filed
September 2005HailMilo-no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindMilo-no account filed
April 2003HailMilo-no account filed
July 2003HailMilo-no account filed
June 1997HailMilo-no account filed
June 1996HailMilo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Vernon 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
Bristow4.0 miles21
Nassau Junction4.5 miles21
Rousertown5.3 miles17
Sandstone5.6 miles20
Nevada6.3 miles21
Sheldon6.8 miles17
Moundville7.8 miles21
Bellamy8.3 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 MiloAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q389015The 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 722412. 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.