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Milford, New York

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Milford town. It lies in ZIP code area 13807. It stands on Hinman Hollow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Milford quadrangle. 367 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,207 feet above sea level.

Milford within Otsego County

Then and now

1907 to 1985

The same ground, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Milford, surveyed 1985
Topographic sheet of Milford, surveyed 1907

Population over time

2 figures

Milford fell from 415 to 367 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
2010415
2020367-48 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

45 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Milford between 1993 and 2020, burning about 102 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 were 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/undetermined25
Debris and open burning10
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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
26 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
17 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 July 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
9 May 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
27 May 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Otsego County

Storms near this place

27 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Milford in 27 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 16 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 2 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2007Thunderstorm WindMilford$10,000A swath of trees knocked down by thunderstorm winds.
August 1996Thunderstorm WindMilford$10,000no account filed
August 2017Thunderstorm WindMilford$5,000A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm produced severe winds and knocked over trees and wires.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindMilford$5,000Tree was blown down on wires which blocked County Highway 58.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindMilford$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and power lines.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindMilford$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindMilford$5,000Severe thunderstorms moved across parts of eastern New York ahead of a strong cold front during the afternoon of July 26th. Thunderstorm winds as high as 80 mph downed thousands of trees which fell on homes, vehicles, and powerlines. In Saratoga County alone 20,000 customers were left without electricity. Among the hardest hit areas were Greenfield Center, Wilton, Northumberland, Saratoga Springs, and Fort Miller. At the Saratoga Spa State Park some 1,500 trees were uprooted or damaged. Some of the trees fell on cars and on the grounds of the Saratoga Performing Arts Center forcing cancellation of a concert. In Greenfield Center extensive damage occurred at the Utters Mobile Estates where at least five mobile homes sustained significant damage when trees fell on them. In Fort Miller dozens of trees were uprooted or snapped off with some of the trees falling on homes while in Argyle a mobile home was flipped over. Torrential rains during the storms resulted in urban flooding in Amsterdam, Saratoga Springs, Fort Edward, and Fort Miller. Lightning was also a problem as a farmer and his daughter were injured when struck by lightning while on a farm tractor in Northumberland and a horse was struck and killed by lightning in Chatham.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindMilford$5,000no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindMilford$5,000no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindMilford$3,000Trees down in Milford. Tree down in Oneonta.
June 2025Flash FloodMilford$2,000Flooding was occurring across the road near the intersection of routes 166 and 35.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindMilford$1,500Strong thunderstorm winds led to a transformer catching on fire.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindMilford$1,000A few trees were blown down.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindMilford$1,000Trees and wires down
October 2013Thunderstorm WindMilford-A tree was blown down.
May 2000Flash FloodMilford-Numerous roads closed due to flooding following heavy thunderstorm rains.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindMilford-Thunderstorm winds brought trees and wires down on a mobile home in Milford.
July 2014HailMilford-no account filed
May 2013HailMilford-no account filed
September 2012HailMilford-no account filed
July 2012HailMilford-no account filed
June 2009HailMilford-no account filed
June 2008HailMilford-no account filed
June 2008HailMilford-no account filed
May 2007HailMilford-no account filed
July 2007Thunderstorm WindMilford-no account filed
November 2005HailMilford-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Otsego 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
Clintonville1.8 miles19
Hartwick Seminary3.8 miles19
Westville4.3 miles19
Portlandville4.3 miles19
Maryland4.9 miles19
Hyde Park4.9 miles19
Milford Center5.1 miles19
Index5.2 miles19

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 MilfordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3460682The 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 957183. 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.