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Milligan, Nebraska

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Glengary Township. It lies in ZIP code area 68406. The Survey maps it on the Friend SW quadrangle. 244 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,604 feet above sea level.

Milligan within Fillmore County

On record in Milligan

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Milligan fell from 285 to 244 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
2010285
2020244-41 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Milligan between 2011 and 2019, burning about 25 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 burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
11 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
5 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
11 March 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 February 2019Debris and open burning20 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fillmore County

Storms near this place

21 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Milligan in 21 storm reports between 2001 and 2024: 13 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 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 2003Thunderstorm WindMilligan$100,000no account filed
June 2004HailMilligan$50,000no account filed
June 2018Thunderstorm WindMilligan$35,000A social media photo featured a large tree that fell on a home, causing roof damage.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindMilligan$25,000Winds gusts to 60 mph snapped power poles and downed tree limbs in Fillmore County.
March 2006HailMilligan$25,000no account filed
June 2006HailMilligan$20,000no account filed
May 2002HailMilligan$20,000no account filed
June 2021Thunderstorm WindMilligan$2,000Wind gusts estimated to be near 60 MPH resulted in minor tree damage near Road P and Road 23.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindMilligan-A wind gust of 69 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located four miles northwest of Milligan.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindMilligan-A wind gust of 78 MPH was measured by a mesonet station located three miles north of Milligan.
April 2017HailMilligan-Quarter size hail was reported along a north-south oriented line of thunderstorms.
October 2016Heavy RainMilligan-A daily rainfall total of 4.70 inches was reported from separate rounds of morning and afternoon thunderstorms.
October 2013HailMilligan-Hail size reported by NeRAIN observer in daily comments. Time estimated from radar data.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindMilligan-no account filed
June 2013HailMilligan-no account filed
May 2012HailMilligan-no account filed
July 2008HailMilligan-no account filed
May 2007HailMilligan-no account filed
May 2005HailMilligan-no account filed
June 2004HailMilligan-no account filed
May 2001HailMilligan-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fillmore 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
Townhall3.8 miles10
Ohiowa6.9 miles10
Burress8.2 miles15
Sawyer (historical)9.7 miles15
Exeter10.5 miles10
Geneva11.2 miles15
Strang12.1 miles12
Fairmont14.1 miles15

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 MilliganAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2274010The 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 831328. 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.