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Milano, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Gause-Milano census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76556. The Survey maps it on the Milano quadrangle. 390 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 522 feet above sea level.

Milano within Milam County

Population over time

2 figures

Milano fell from 428 to 390 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
2010428
2020390-38 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Milano between 2000 and 2013, burning about 556 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Debris and open burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1

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
4 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSOUTH BRANCH - 117
14 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWHITELEY
5 August 2013Debris and open burning60 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMEYERS FIRE
7 April 2009Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRIFFIN CHAPLE FIRE
7 April 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRIFFIN CHAPLE FIRE #2
3 April 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSCHLEMMER
23 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 234 HAYBALES
21 March 2006Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Milam County

Storms near this place

14 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Milano in 14 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 5 flash flood, 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2012Thunderstorm WindMilano$4,000Thunderstorm winds peeled the roof off the intake area at the Milano Livestock Exchange. Several trees were also knocked down by the strong winds. Many of the trees were likely already weakened by the extreme drought that had plagued the county over the past year.
September 1996Tornado (F1)Milano$4,000no account filed
February 2017Thunderstorm WindMilano$2,000A trained spotter reported that several large Juniper trees and two power poles were blown down.
May 2025Flash FloodMilano-Facebook report of CR 326 and CR 322 both flooded.
April 2019HailMilano-A trained spotter reported quarter size hail approximately one mile north-northeast of the city of Milano, TX.
March 2018HailMilano-A public report indicated quarter sized hail approximately 5 miles north of the city of Milano, TX.
May 2015Flash FloodMilano-Highway 79 in Milano is impassable due to flood waters.
October 2006Flash FloodMilano-Significant flooding occurred on several roads near Milano.
May 2004Flash FloodMilano-Water over roadway in downtown area of Gause on Highway 79. At 100 PM, flooding continued on Highway 77 from Milano to east of Gause, but the water was receding.
June 2004Heavy RainMilano-Heavy rain resulted in high water in the railroad underpass south of town on Highway 36. Several creeks were briefly out of banks, and brief high water was reported on city streets.
May 2003HailMilano-no account filed
May 2001Thunderstorm WindMilano-no account filed
January 1999HailMilano-no account filed
September 1996Flash FloodMilano-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Milam 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
Elevation4.6 miles8
Liberty4.6 miles7
Hoyte5.8 miles8
Hanover6.8 miles7
Minerva7.4 miles8
Rockdale8.2 miles15
Gause9.1 miles7
Praesel9.5 miles15

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 MilanoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q982385The 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 1362829. 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.