Mills, Nebraska

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Mills precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68759. It stands on Indian Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mills quadrangle. It stands 1,919 feet above sea level.

Mills within Keya Paha County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

1955 USGS O'Neill quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS O'Neill quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Mills quadrangle1:24000
1969 USGS O'Neill quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Ainsworth quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1989 USGS O'Neill quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Mills in 2019, burning about 1 acre 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	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
24 June 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Keya Paha County

Storms near this place

28 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mills in 28 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 18 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 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
June 2003	Tornado (F0)	Mills	$30,000	A tornado moved across a farmstead and produced major damage to a mechanics shop, a garage, and a grain bin. Numerous mature trees were also snapped off or uprooted.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Mills	$15,000	Severe tree damage occurred with the strong winds. Numerous large limbs were down. Some mature trees were broken off. Roads were blocked due to fallen limbs.
June 2008	Hail	Mills	$5,000	Wind driven hail broke all the windows on the north side of a house. Hail completely covered the ground.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Mills	$2,000	The strong thunderstorm winds took down power lines.
June 2008	Hail	Mills	$2,000	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Mills	$1,200	no account filed
July 2023	Hail	Mills	-	Public reported hail up to baseball size, which damaged windows on the house north of Mills.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Mills	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts, estimated at 60 MPH, brought 8 to 10 inch diameter tree limbs down at this location.
July 2019	Flood	Mills	-	Emergency manager reported water covering many county roads.
August 2019	Funnel Cloud	Mills	-	Funnel cloud reported along the Nebraska/South Dakota state line.
August 2012	Hail	Mills	-	Ground was mostly white.
July 2010	Hail	Mills	-	Nickel to golfball size hail covered the ground.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Mills	-	The public estimated winds at 50 to 60 mph.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Mills	-	Numerous large tree branches were broken.
June 2003	Tornado (F0)	Mills	-	The tornado touched down briefly in an open field.
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Mills	-	Large tree limbs down.
August 1995	Hail	Mills	-	Large tree limbs down.
July 2025	Hail	Mills	-	no account filed
June 2017	Hail	Mills	-	no account filed
September 2017	Hail	Mills	-	no account filed
August 2016	Hail	Mills	-	no account filed
August 2012	Hail	Mills	-	no account filed
August 2012	Hail	Mills	-	no account filed
July 2010	Hail	Mills	-	no account filed
August 2010	Hail	Mills	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Mills	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Mills	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Mills	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Keya Paha 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Brocksburg	6.0 miles	9
Burton	8.1 miles	9
Jamison	8.2 miles	9
Carns (historical)	14.3 miles	11
Riverview	16.5 miles	11
Springview	18.0 miles	9
Meadville	24.9 miles	10
Norden	33.8 miles	10

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 Mills	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6859937	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 831330. 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.