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Miller, Nebraska

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Precinct 15. It lies in ZIP code area 68858. The Survey maps it on the Miller quadrangle. 129 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,320 feet above sea level.

Miller within Buffalo County

Population over time

2 figures

Miller fell from 136 to 129 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
2010136
2020129-7 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Miller between 2004 and 2017, burning about 83 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 burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
21 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
13 August 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
1 August 2017Debris and open burning10 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
28 March 2010Debris and open burning30 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
22 March 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
20 March 2004Equipment and vehicle use40 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Buffalo County

Storms near this place

44 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Miller in 44 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 31 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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 2019Flash FloodMiller$5,000,000no account filed
May 2014HailMiller$250,000Quarter to golf ball size hail was reported in town.
May 2008Flash FloodMiller$60,000Thunderstorms rolled across the same area of southern Buffalo County during the evening hours and dumped several inches of rain. This caused many roads and small creeks to quickly flood. Several streets in the city of Kearney were also flooded.
June 2002HailMiller$50,000no account filed
July 2021Thunderstorm WindMiller$30,000NWS Cooperative Observer reported that a tree fell onto a car in Miller. Time was estimated based on radar, speed was estimated from upstream measurement of 70 MPH near Sumner.
June 2022HailMiller$25,000no account filed
August 2007HailMiller$25,000no account filed
August 2009HailMiller$10,000no account filed
July 2016Thunderstorm WindMiller$5,000Wind gusts were estimated to be near 60 MPH. Tree damage was reported near Highway 183 and the South Loup River.
May 2004HailMiller$5,000no account filed
June 1998HailMiller$5,000no account filed
June 2024Thunderstorm WindMiller$1,000A tree was blown over onto Highway 183.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindMiller-Emergency management estimated wind gusts near 60 MPH.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindMiller-Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH resulted in minor tree damage in Miller.
July 2018Heavy RainMiller-A storm total rainfall amount of 3.35 inches was recorded by a mesonet site located in Miller.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindMiller-Damage to a local church was reported.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindMiller-Wind gusts estimated at 70 MPH.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindMiller-Wind gusts estimated at 60 mph.
June 2024HailMiller-no account filed
March 2023HailMiller-no account filed
May 2023HailMiller-no account filed
July 2022HailMiller-no account filed
May 2019HailMiller-no account filed
July 2019HailMiller-no account filed
May 2018Thunderstorm WindMiller-no account filed
July 2016HailMiller-no account filed
July 2016HailMiller-no account filed
September 2015HailMiller-no account filed
July 2014HailMiller-no account filed
October 2014HailMiller-no account filed
May 2012HailMiller-no account filed
April 2011HailMiller-no account filed
June 2011HailMiller-no account filed
June 2011HailMiller-no account filed
August 2011HailMiller-no account filed
July 2010HailMiller-no account filed
June 2008HailMiller-no account filed
May 2006HailMiller-no account filed
June 2006Thunderstorm WindMiller-no account filed
May 2005HailMiller-no account filed
June 2004HailMiller-no account filed
May 2003HailMiller-no account filed
May 2003HailMiller-no account filed
May 1998HailMiller-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Buffalo 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
Sartoria10.1 miles15
Amherst12.8 miles16
Elm Creek14.4 miles16
Riverdale15.7 miles15
Pleasanton16.5 miles15
Odessa17.2 miles16
Prairie Center18.5 miles16
Alfalfa Center19.8 miles18

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 MillerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1990721The 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 831311. 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.