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Milo Center, New York

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Milo town. It lies in ZIP code area 14527. The Survey maps it on the Dresden quadrangle.

Milo Center within Yates County

Then and now

1902 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 84 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Milo Center, surveyed 1986
Topographic sheet of Milo Center, surveyed 1902

On record in Milo Center

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 24 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

135 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 135 fires within 5 miles of Milo Center between 2002 and 2020, burning about 73 acres in total. 10 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/undetermined90
Smoking15
Natural10
Debris and open burning6
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
5 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
28 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
2 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
19 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
16 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
12 September 2016Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Yates County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Milo Center: 5 past producers, 2 plants, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt, Zirconium, Halite. 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
Seneca Lake MineHalitePast ProducerHalite
Transelco/ Penn Yan, N.Y.REE, ZirconiumPlant
Transelco/ Dresden, N.Y.ZirconiumPlant
Hansen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Holly PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
J.Sanderson No.1 WellSaltPast Producer
J.T.Andrews No.1 WellSaltPast Producer
Milo Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Seneca Lake MineSaltPast Producer

Every working recorded in Yates County

Storms near this place

4 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Milo Center in 4 storm reports between 2001 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 2023Thunderstorm WindMilo Center$50,000First location surveyed was a horse barn with the north side open and it looked like the building was perfectly exposed to the strong winds from the north-northwest to blow the building apart with debris spread to a 155 to 160 degree direction. Looking at post in the ground the mud was soft and waterlogged so it likely did not take as much force to destroy the building so a lower wind estimate was used at 80 mph. ||To the west along City Hill Road there were several medium to large pines that had |either been snapped or uprooted also in a 155 to 160 degree direction. Many of the uprooted trees had a shallow root ball and the hole left by the root ball in the ground was filled with water. To the north along Ridge Road, power poles were either tilting or snapped. The power poles were thinner and older so a lower wind estimate was used resulting in the 85 mph rating. ||Multiple pine trees were also snapped or uprooted at several homes along Ridge Road as well, falling in the 155 to 160 degree direction as well. One home had a chimney that toppled over. Talking to a couple home owners that were home at the time of the |microburst, the stories matched up with strong winds and heavy rain occurring at the same time resulting in white out conditions similar to a blizzard. The stories as well as all the damage and fallen trees leaning in the same direction away from the core of |the storm on radar at the time of the damage means that this was likely a microburst. The Penn Yan Mesonet station from the NYS mesonet system was on the very edge of the microburst and recorded a gust of 62 mph.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindMilo Center$3,000Trees and wires were blown down.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindMilo Center$2,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree and wires.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindMilo Center-Emergency management reported some wires down after a thunderstorm in Milo.

Every storm recorded in Yates 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
Seneca Mills1.9 miles22
Milo Mills2.2 miles22
Mays Mills2.3 miles24
Second Milo2.5 miles22
Kenka Mills2.7 miles22
Randall Crossing3.2 miles24
Penn Yan3.4 miles22
Himrod3.9 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 957363. 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.