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.
Population over time
2 figuresMilano 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 428 | |
| 2020 | 390 | -38 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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.
- 1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Milano quadrangle1:62500
- 1962 USGS Milano quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1993 USGS Bryan quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
33 since 2000Regional 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 burning | 20 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 200 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SOUTH BRANCH - 117 |
| 14 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | WHITELEY |
| 5 August 2013 | Debris and open burning | 60 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MEYERS FIRE |
| 7 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRIFFIN CHAPLE FIRE |
| 7 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRIFFIN CHAPLE FIRE #2 |
| 3 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | SCHLEMMER |
| 23 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CR 234 HAYBALES |
| 21 March 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
14 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milano | $4,000 | Thunderstorm 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 1996 | Tornado (F1) | Milano | $4,000 | no account filed |
| February 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milano | $2,000 | A trained spotter reported that several large Juniper trees and two power poles were blown down. |
| May 2025 | Flash Flood | Milano | - | Facebook report of CR 326 and CR 322 both flooded. |
| April 2019 | Hail | Milano | - | A trained spotter reported quarter size hail approximately one mile north-northeast of the city of Milano, TX. |
| March 2018 | Hail | Milano | - | A public report indicated quarter sized hail approximately 5 miles north of the city of Milano, TX. |
| May 2015 | Flash Flood | Milano | - | Highway 79 in Milano is impassable due to flood waters. |
| October 2006 | Flash Flood | Milano | - | Significant flooding occurred on several roads near Milano. |
| May 2004 | Flash Flood | Milano | - | 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 2004 | Heavy Rain | Milano | - | 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 2003 | Hail | Milano | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milano | - | no account filed |
| January 1999 | Hail | Milano | - | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Flash Flood | Milano | - | 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.
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 Milano | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q982385 | 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 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.



