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Millican, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the South Brazos census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77868. The Survey maps it on the Millican quadrangle. 240 people lived here at the 2010 count. It stands 312 feet above sea level.

Millican within Brazos County

On record in Millican

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Millican grew from 108 to 240 between 2000 and 2010. 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
2000108
2010240+132 (+122%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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.

Photographs

2 photographs,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Harrington-Upham House, Corn Crib, FM 2154 (Wellborn Road), Millican, Brazos County, TX
Harrington-Upham House, Corn Crib, FM 2154 (Wellborn Road), Millican, Brazos County, TX
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Harrington-Upham House, FM 2154 (Wellborn Road), Millican, Brazos County, TX
Harrington-Upham House, FM 2154 (Wellborn Road), Millican, Brazos County, TX
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

171 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 171 fires within 5 miles of Millican between 1992 and 2020, burning about 479 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined65
Debris and open burning59
Equipment and vehicle use31
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony1
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
9 September 2019Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSCHEHIN FIRE
7 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service25300 STATE HIGHWAY 6 SOUTH
6 September 2015Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceROSS FIRE
6 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHUNTER FIRE
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service21155 STATE HIGHWAY 6 S
5 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 2154 @ OLD HIGHWAY 6
5 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceROCK BOTTOM RD FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brazos County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Millican: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Millican Salt DomeHaliteOccurrenceHalite

Every working recorded in Brazos County

Storms near this place

15 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Millican in 15 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 7 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 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
January 1998Tornado (F0)Millican$35,000Tornado broke and lifted 2-by-6's off a barn roof 2.5 WSW Millican. As the tornado reached Millican, it tore a front porch of a house off, and also peeled a house and barn roof off.
August 1999Thunderstorm WindMillican$15,000Trees down in Millican and along Hwy. 6 between Millican and Navasota.
August 1999HailMillican$15,000no account filed
April 1996HailMillican$5,000no account filed
October 2003Tornado (F0)Millican$3,000Tornado caused minor damage to a building.
January 1999HailMillican$3,000no account filed
January 1998HailMillican$3,000no account filed
August 2020Thunderstorm WindMillican$2,000Large tree limbs were downed in Millican.
March 2004HailMillican$2,0003/4" Hail in Millican.
April 2026HailMillican-A local fire department reported hail, ranging from quarter to approximately golf ball size, over southern Brazos County.
April 2020HailMillican-There was quarter size hail reported on Highway 6 between College Station and Navasota.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindMillican-A tree was downed near the intersection of FM 159 and Matt Wright Road.
December 2015Flash FloodMillican-Several roads were closed just to the east and southeast of College Station due to heavy rain.
June 2010Flash FloodMillican-Heavy rainfall caused water over the road on FM 159 near Millican.
June 2010Flash FloodMillican-Peach Creek Road was impassable due to high water from heavy rains.

Every storm recorded in Brazos 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
Nelleva1.3 miles14
Dallam3.4 miles14
Dinkins3.5 miles14
Cawthon4.1 miles14
Peach Creek4.8 miles9
Allenfarm5.3 miles14
Enright5.6 miles10
Royder6.8 miles10

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 MillicanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q970385The 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 1362920. 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.