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Milan, New Mexico

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1883 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Grants census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87021. It lies near Zuni Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Milan quadrangle. 2,456 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,519 feet above sea level.

Milan within Cibola County

On record in Milan

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Milan fell from 3,245 to 2,456 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
20103,245
20202,456-789 (-24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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

22 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Milan between 1996 and 2020, burning about 87 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Debris and open burning7
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Other causes1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
2 September 2011Natural1.0 acresCibola National ForestRINCONADA
19 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBernalillo DistrictCRASH
14 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreSouthern Pueblos AgencyTRANSFER
26 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlbuquerque District OfficeCOLLEGE
26 July 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreAlbuquerque District OfficeTOWER
8 June 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlbuquerque District OfficeTHE 85
3 June 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlbuquerque District OfficePARSON LN
29 June 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresCibola National ForestMILAN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cibola County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Milan: 8 producers, 5 unknowns, 5 past producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, Dimension, Uranium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Perlite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Flea MineClayPast Producer
Grants Perlite MillPerliteProducer
United States Gypsum Perlite MinePerlitePast Producer
Griego Pit and CrusherSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Marinelli PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Materials Pit 57-127-FSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Roadway PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
BobcatUraniumPast Producer
Cedar #1UraniumUnknown
Christmas Day #1UraniumPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cibola County

Storms near this place

5 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Milan in 5 storm reports between 2009 and 2024: 4 flash flood, 1 hail. 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 2015Flash FloodMilan$50,000Heavy rains caused several streets to flood with between 2 to 4 feet of water in downtown Grants. The street flooding included First and Second streets from Washington to Roosevelt as well as Fifth and Santa Fe streets. It caused one vehicle to stall due to the water height. No business or homes were reported flooded as well as no reported injuries.
July 2010Flash FloodMilan$20,000Heavy rain eroded the smaller of two uranium tailing piles at the Homestead/Barrick Gold former mill site. A wall of water 80 to 100 yards wide flooded the four subdivisions. Ralph Card, Sundowner, Thunderbird and Malapais roads were flooded and several other roads in the area had high water. Residents of the four subdivisions likened their front and back yards to lakes with water up to 18 inches deep.
June 2024Flash FloodMilan-Water flooding over NM 605 north of Milan prompted the closure of the highway.
June 2009Flash FloodMilan-Heavy rains caused a flash flood along Highway 605 north-northeast of Milan. Two feet of water was running over the road which made the road impassible.
October 2010HailMilan-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cibola 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
Grants2.6 miles20
Golden Acres3.0 miles20
Toltec3.3 miles20
San Rafael4.0 miles19
Broadview4.2 miles20
Bluewater7.7 miles19
Lobo Canyon9.4 miles20
Anzac11.2 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 MilanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1014181The 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 908735. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, 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.