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Millers Mills, New York

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Columbia town. It lies in ZIP code area 13491. It lies near Jones Hill. The Survey maps it on the Millers Mills quadrangle. It stands 1,339 feet above sea level.

Millers Mills within Herkimer County

Then and now

1907 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 79 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Millers Mills, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Millers Mills, surveyed 1907

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

33 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Millers Mills between 1999 and 2018, burning about 25 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined22
Arson/incendiarism6
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
18 August 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
11 August 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 July 1999Smokingunder an acreNew York Forest Rangersnot named
22 July 2016Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
14 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
12 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 May 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Herkimer County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Millers Mills: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Millers Mill PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Litchfield QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Litchfield QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Herkimer County

Storms near this place

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Millers Mills in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
June 2025Thunderstorm WindMillers Mills-A local emergency manager reported multiple trees down and blocking Elizabethtown Rd in Ilion.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindMillers Mills-Local fire department reported multiple trees down on Elizabethtown Road.
August 2009Flash FloodMillers Mills-State Route 168 was closed with debris floating across it due to flash flooding from heavy rain. State Route 5S and Miller Mills Road at McKoons Road were closed. Also, there was flooding reported in the German Flatts area.
April 2019HailMillers Mills-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Herkimer 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
Millers Mills Crossing0.9 miles18
Youngs Crossing1.1 miles18
Cedarville1.8 miles18
Chepachet2.2 miles18
McCoon Crossing2.3 miles18
Cedarville Station2.4 miles18
Columbia Center2.5 miles18
Elizabethtown3.2 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 Millers MillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48742599The 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 957332. 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.