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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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Milnor within Sargent County

Population over time

2 figures

Milnor 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.

YearPeople Change
2010653
2020624-29 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

6 since 2015

Regional 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 use5
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
15 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use50 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceFIRE IN CRP
3 May 2016Equipment and vehicle use30 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceSPIECH
16 April 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest Service75TH ST GRASS FIRE
14 April 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined45 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceSTORM LAKE CONTROLLED BURN
22 March 2016Equipment and vehicle use160 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceGIBBON
14 March 2016Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceKRAMER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sargent County

Storms near this place

29 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2018Tornado (EF1)Milnor$50,000A 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 2001Thunderstorm WindMilnor$10,000Several large trees were blown over in Milnor. One tree fell on top of 2 parked vehicles.
May 1994HailMilnor$5,000no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindMilnor$2,000Tree limbs were blown down.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindMilnor-Public reports corn fields damaged.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindMilnor-A few large tree branches were blown down.
August 2016HailMilnor-Dime to nickel sized hail was reported.
July 2011Funnel CloudMilnor-The funnel cloud location was approximated by a spotter who was located three miles east of Gwinner.
June 2007FloodMilnor-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 2007FloodMilnor-Several rural roads were closed due to the heavy rain.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindMilnor-Numerous large tree branches were blown down.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindMilnor-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 2005Flash FloodMilnor-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 2005Flash FloodMilnor-Fields were flooded and water covered several roads.
June 2005HailMilnor-Nickle to quarter-sized hail covered the ground.
June 2005Flash FloodMilnor-Watered covered highway 13 east of Milnor.
June 2005Flash FloodMilnor-Street flooding was reported in Milnor.
June 2003Flash FloodMilnor-Water was reported over a road.
June 1997HailMilnor-The hail lasted for 15 minutes.
July 2018HailMilnor-no account filed
May 2005HailMilnor-no account filed
May 2004HailMilnor-no account filed
August 2004HailMilnor-no account filed
July 2003HailMilnor-no account filed
June 2002HailMilnor-no account filed
June 2002HailMilnor-no account filed
August 2002HailMilnor-no account filed
July 2000HailMilnor-no account filed
June 1997HailMilnor-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sargent 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
Sundale Colony4.6 miles10
Hoving6.0 miles7
De Lamere6.4 miles10
Hamlin11.1 miles10
Gwinner11.2 miles8
Ransom City (historical)11.9 miles9
Cayuga13.3 miles9
Forman14.2 miles7

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 MilnorAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2427220The 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.