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.
Then and now
1907 to 1985The 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.


Population over time
2 figuresMilford 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 415 | |
| 2020 | 367 | -48 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 19 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1907 USGS Cooperstown quadrangle1:62500
- 1909 USGS Cooperstown quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1943 USGS Milford quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1945 USGS Milford quadrangle1:31680
- 1948 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Binghamton quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Amsterdam quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
45 since 1993Regional 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/undetermined | 25 |
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.5 acres | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 17 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 6 July 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 6 July 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 5 July 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | N/A |
| 3 June 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | NA |
| 9 May 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
| 27 May 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fire Department of New York | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
27 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milford | $10,000 | A swath of trees knocked down by thunderstorm winds. |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milford | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milford | $5,000 | A thunderstorm moved across the region and became severe. This thunderstorm produced severe winds and knocked over trees and wires. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milford | $5,000 | Tree was blown down on wires which blocked County Highway 58. |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milford | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and power lines. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milford | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed trees. |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milford | $5,000 | Severe 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 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milford | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milford | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milford | $3,000 | Trees down in Milford. Tree down in Oneonta. |
| June 2025 | Flash Flood | Milford | $2,000 | Flooding was occurring across the road near the intersection of routes 166 and 35. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milford | $1,500 | Strong thunderstorm winds led to a transformer catching on fire. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milford | $1,000 | A few trees were blown down. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milford | $1,000 | Trees and wires down |
| October 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milford | - | A tree was blown down. |
| May 2000 | Flash Flood | Milford | - | Numerous roads closed due to flooding following heavy thunderstorm rains. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milford | - | Thunderstorm winds brought trees and wires down on a mobile home in Milford. |
| July 2014 | Hail | Milford | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Milford | - | no account filed |
| September 2012 | Hail | Milford | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Hail | Milford | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Milford | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Milford | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Milford | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Milford | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milford | - | no account filed |
| November 2005 | Hail | Milford | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clintonville | 1.8 miles | 19 | |
| Hartwick Seminary | 3.8 miles | 19 | |
| Westville | 4.3 miles | 19 | |
| Portlandville | 4.3 miles | 19 | |
| Maryland | 4.9 miles | 19 | |
| Hyde Park | 4.9 miles | 19 | |
| Milford Center | 5.1 miles | 19 | |
| Index | 5.2 miles | 19 |
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 Milford | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3460682 | 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 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.








