BlockMilton, North Dakota
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Milton City. It lies in ZIP code area 58260. The Survey maps it on the Milton quadrangle. 39 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,588 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMilton fell from 58 to 39 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 | 58 | |
| 2020 | 39 | -19 (-33%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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.
- 1953 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Devils Lake quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Milton quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Langdon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
18 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Milton in 18 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 3 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milton | $500,000 | Large portions of Alma and East Alma townships were stripped of small grain and bean crops by extreme downburst winds and wind driven hail. |
| August 2000 | Tornado (F0) | Milton | $50,000 | A brief touchdown destroyed a barn and tore the roof off a shop. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milton | $25,000 | Granite slabs at the veteran's memorial were blown over and shattered by the strong winds. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milton | $20,000 | Engineers for United Telephone estimated a 125 mph wind gust (at 400 feet AGL) broke off a 7 inch diameter fiberglass antenna mounted on a tower. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milton | $10,000 | Many trees were blown down which knocked out power. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milton | $500 | Trees were blown down in Milton. |
| June 2022 | Tornado (EF0) | Milton | - | Tornado was filmed by at least 2 individuals, one just south of Milton and one west of Milton on highway 66. It slowly tracked for about one half mile to the northeast, to around 2.5 wsw of Milton by 258 pm cdt. The tornado produced a fairly wide dust plume as it moved across and open field. Peak winds estimated to 75 mph. Maximum width to 10 yards. Videos and reports posted via social media. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milton | - | This gust was measured by a ND mesonet station. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milton | - | A few large tree branches were blown down. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milton | - | Large branches were blown down at a farmstead. |
| June 2015 | Tornado (EF1) | Milton | - | The tornado touched down west of Milton and tracked into the southwestern side of town before dissipating. Eight empty grain cars in a grain train at the Milton loading facility were blown over to the southwest. Peak wind speeds were estimated at 90 mph. |
| August 2007 | Hail | Milton | - | The hail was mostly penny to dime size, with some golfball size mixed in. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milton | - | Large trees were blown down. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milton | - | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Funnel Cloud | Milton | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Milton | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Milton | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Hail | Milton | - | 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.
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 Milton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2373903 | 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 1030235. 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.
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.