Milnor, North Dakota
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Milnor Township. It lies in ZIP code area 58060. It lies near Fangsrud Lake Bed. The Survey maps it on the Milnor quadrangle. 624 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,102 feet above sea level.
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Population over time
2 figuresMilnor fell from 653 to 624 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 | 653 | |
| 2020 | 624 | -29 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 10 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.
- 1907 USGS Wyndmere quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Milnor quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Lisbon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:250000
- 1998 USGS Milnor quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
6 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Milnor between 2015 and 2019, burning about 288 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 50 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | FIRE IN CRP |
| 3 May 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 30 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | SPIECH |
| 16 April 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | 75TH ST GRASS FIRE |
| 14 April 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 45 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | STORM LAKE CONTROLLED BURN |
| 22 March 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 160 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | GIBBON |
| 14 March 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | North Dakota State Forest Service | KRAMER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
29 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Milnor in 29 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 14 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2018 | Tornado (EF1) | Milnor | $50,000 | A partially rain wrapped tornado tracked across Milnor Township. The tornado broken numerous branches and a tree in Milnor. Further east, tree damage was also noted just south of county road 13, along with the roof of a large farm shed. Several funnel clouds were reported as the circulation weakened. |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milnor | $10,000 | Several large trees were blown over in Milnor. One tree fell on top of 2 parked vehicles. |
| May 1994 | Hail | Milnor | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milnor | $2,000 | Tree limbs were blown down. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milnor | - | Public reports corn fields damaged. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milnor | - | A few large tree branches were blown down. |
| August 2016 | Hail | Milnor | - | Dime to nickel sized hail was reported. |
| July 2011 | Funnel Cloud | Milnor | - | The funnel cloud location was approximated by a spotter who was located three miles east of Gwinner. |
| June 2007 | Flood | Milnor | - | Many road closures were reported due to flooding, especially across the eastern part of Sargent County. In Milnor, a levee was built to prevent Storm Lake from spilling into town. |
| June 2007 | Flood | Milnor | - | Several rural roads were closed due to the heavy rain. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milnor | - | Numerous large tree branches were blown down. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milnor | - | Several 4 to 6 inch diameter tree branches were broken off in shelterbelts along the Sargent and Ransom County line. The trees were in the early leafing stages. |
| June 2005 | Flash Flood | Milnor | - | Heavy rainfall caused Storm Lake to rise and threaten the town of Milnor. Sandbaggers were called out to help keep the water out, with as many as 30 homes threatened by the rising water. The Milnor golf course also had substantial flooding. |
| June 2005 | Flash Flood | Milnor | - | Fields were flooded and water covered several roads. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Milnor | - | Nickle to quarter-sized hail covered the ground. |
| June 2005 | Flash Flood | Milnor | - | Watered covered highway 13 east of Milnor. |
| June 2005 | Flash Flood | Milnor | - | Street flooding was reported in Milnor. |
| June 2003 | Flash Flood | Milnor | - | Water was reported over a road. |
| June 1997 | Hail | Milnor | - | The hail lasted for 15 minutes. |
| July 2018 | Hail | Milnor | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Milnor | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Milnor | - | no account filed |
| August 2004 | Hail | Milnor | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Milnor | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Milnor | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Milnor | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Milnor | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Milnor | - | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Hail | Milnor | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sundale Colony | 4.6 miles | 10 | |
| Hoving | 6.0 miles | 7 | |
| De Lamere | 6.4 miles | 10 | |
| Hamlin | 11.1 miles | 10 | |
| Gwinner | 11.2 miles | 8 | |
| Ransom City (historical) | 11.9 miles | 9 | |
| Cayuga | 13.3 miles | 9 | |
| Forman | 14.2 miles | 7 |
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 Milnor | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2427220 | 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 1035008. 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.






