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Millard, Wisconsin

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Sugar Creek town. It lies in ZIP code area 53121. The Survey maps it on the Elkhorn quadrangle. It stands 932 feet above sea level.

Millard within Walworth County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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.

In the county-history sources

9,286 words on this township

History of Walworth County, Wisconsin, Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources...its War Record, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers; the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin...and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution.., published 1882 names this settlement in its chapter on Sugar Creek Town. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The town contained, according to the Federal census of 1880, 980 inhabitants, niiietenths of whom are farmers or constitute their families. There is in the town one postoffice - " Millard," formerly " Barker's Corners." There is no mill in the town. There is one cheese factory, owned by a stock company, on Section 1 ; one store at Millard postoffice, kept by E. A. Hastings, who is the post-master.

Passage source: History of Walworth County, Wisconsin, Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources...its War Record, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers; the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin...and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution.., published 1882.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Sugar Creek Town - it names this place 6 more 6 times.

Fires near this place

14 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Millard between 2018 and 2020, burning about 38 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning6
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19012
8 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources153
7 April 2018Debris and open burning10 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources137
6 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19011
29 April 2018Debris and open burning15 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources172
28 April 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources170
22 April 2019Smokingunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources170
8 March 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources20008

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walworth County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Millard: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Home PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Nelson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Paddock PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Walworth County

Storms near this place

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Millard in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 5 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
July 2024Thunderstorm WindMillard$15,000Power poles snapped, power lines and trees down in a 2 mile radius around the North Lake area.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindMillard$4,000Scattered trees down in Whitewater, Richmond, and the Sugar Creek area.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindMillard$2,000Many trees down in the area.
June 1996Thunderstorm WindMillard$1,000no account filed
June 2009Thunderstorm WindMillard-A few large trees were blown down by thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Walworth 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
Tibbets2.1 miles19
Heart Prairie2.4 miles32
Lauderdale4.1 miles32
Abells Corners4.2 miles19
Lauderdale Shores4.5 miles32
La Grange4.6 miles32
Elkhorn5.9 miles19
Adams6.5 miles32

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 MillardAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6858495The 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 1569500. 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.