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Milford, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Italy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76670. The Survey maps it on the Mertens quadrangle. 722 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 617 feet above sea level.

Milford within Ellis County

Population over time

2 figures

Milford fell from 728 to 722 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
2010728
2020722-6 (-1%)

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

51 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Milford between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,810 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Debris and open burning16
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking1
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
7 September 2019Debris and open burning1,100 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 934 GRASS FIRE
30 September 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE- HCR 4311
25 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOUNTY ROAD 4311 FIRE
25 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHCR 4311 GRASS FIRE
25 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHCR 4311
23 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
14 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use22 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFINN RD FIRE
7 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined47 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTITIAN FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ellis County

Storms near this place

14 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Milford in 14 storm reports between 1993 and 2021: 9 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2007Thunderstorm WindMilford$250,000Seventeen electrical towers were knocked down. Numerous power lines and poles were also knocked down. About 30,000 homes lost power. A gas pump fell on top of the passenger cab of a truck. The man inside was not injured.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindMilford$4,000Trees were knocked down in Downtown Milford.
April 2021HailMilford$3,000no account filed
September 2010Flash FloodMilford-Numerous roads were closed throughout the county for several hours due to the heavy rainfall. No major problems were reported.
May 2009HailMilford-Nickel size hail fell north of Millford.
April 2006HailMilford-Reported along FM 566 between Milford and Italy by the Italy Police Department.
December 2002Thunderstorm WindMilford-Numerous reports of large tree limbs blown down.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindMilford-Trees were blown down by high winds.
May 2007HailMilford-no account filed
March 2006HailMilford-no account filed
August 2004HailMilford-no account filed
March 1996HailMilford-no account filed
October 1994HailMilford-no account filed
May 1993HailMilford-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ellis 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
Italy5.2 miles10
Plum Grove5.4 miles10
Bell Branch8.3 miles10
Lumkins9.3 miles9
Avalon9.9 miles9
Forreston10.0 miles9
Lone Cedar10.4 miles9
Five Points10.9 miles11

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 MilfordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q974895The 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 1341604. 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.