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Milltown, Wisconsin

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Milltown town. It lies in ZIP code area 54858. The Survey maps it on the Milltown quadrangle. 1,219 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,198 feet above sea level.

Milltown within Polk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Milltown between 1994 and 2020, burning about 34 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/undetermined5
Debris and open burning2
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
14 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1808141
7 May 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1905071
7 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources18
6 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources60
12 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2005121
29 April 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resources1804291
11 April 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources2050
1 April 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Milltown: 8 occurrences, 7 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper. 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
Nd Unnamed Prospect Near MilltowCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Prospect Near MilltowCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Prospect Near MilltownCopperOccurrence
Unnamed Prospect Near MilltownCopperOccurrence
Balsam Lake Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Big Butternut Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Butternut Creek Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Hochstetler PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
James D Gray Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Jorgenson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Polk County

Storms near this place

18 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Milltown in 18 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 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 2001Thunderstorm WindMilltown$800,000Numerous trees down, some on houses and vehicles, in a wide swath across the county. One tree fell through a trailer in Balsam Lake. Pole barn collapsed on western edge of Balsam Lake. Tree fell through apartment building in Balsam Lake. Building under construction in Centuria was taken down.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindMilltown$5,000A two foot diameter tree was blown down in Milltown and landed on a house.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindMilltown$500A large tree fell on a home near Main Street and State Highway 35. The tree damaged a electrical panel.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindMilltown-A tree was reported down near the intersection of 150th St and 220th Ave, east of the village of Milltown.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindMilltown-Thousands of large trees were broken, uprooted or blown down. Some were two feet in diameter. Many trees landed on houses, sheds, outbuildings, and vehicles. Many outbuildings were destroyed by wind, along with roofs off barns and sheds. The swath of wind damage was nearly ten miles wide, and some areas had entire sections of forest leveled.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindMilltown-About two dozen trees were reported down across roads and power lines in a swath several miles wide.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindMilltown-Tree down across road.
May 2007Tornado (EF0)Milltown-Unoccupied mobile home trailer was rolled several times and was heavily damaged near Rice Lake. A few large trees were blown down and an older barn collapsed east of Milltown. The tornado was photographed by a citizen.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindMilltown-Trees down across road.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindMilltown-Trees toppled.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindMilltown-A few trees felled. Winds estimated.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindMilltown-Trees blown down. Estimated windspeed.
May 2018HailMilltown-no account filed
July 2015HailMilltown-no account filed
June 2007HailMilltown-no account filed
June 2007HailMilltown-no account filed
June 1999HailMilltown-no account filed
May 1998HailMilltown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Polk 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
West Denmark3.0 miles16
Luck3.7 miles13
Centuria5.7 miles22
Balsam Lake5.8 miles14
Lykens7.3 miles14
Eureka Center7.6 miles16
Lamar7.7 miles22
Cushing8.2 miles16

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 MilltownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2671510The 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 1569527. 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.