Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Milford, TX

Milford is a town in the southwestern corner of Ellis County, Texas, whose motto is "Small town living with room to grow."

Milford dates to the 1850s, when settlers from Cherokee County bought land in the Mill Creek valley at 50 cents an acre from landowner Arvin Wright, and William R. Hudson named the town after the factory town of Milford, Massachusetts.

Milford's town lots were laid out atop a ridge in 1854, a gristmill began operating in 1857, and the town incorporated in 1888 with W. R. McDaniel as its first mayor.

When the Dallas and Waco Railway reached Milford in 1890, the town became an important shipping point for area cotton farmers and peaked at about 1,200 residents in 1929.

From 1902 to 1929 Milford was home to the Texas Presbyterian College for Girls, which the town helped found with 10 acres of land and $25,000 before the college closed and merged with Austin College in Sherman.

As of the 2020 census, Milford had a population of 722, nearly unchanged from 728 in 2010.

On November 14, 2013, a Chevron liquefied petroleum gas pipeline explosion forced the evacuation of the entire town of roughly 700 residents to nearby Italy, Texas, for two days.

Milford is the setting of the 2015 film Lazer Team, the first feature film by the Texas-based company Rooster Teeth, and of the 2016 comedy Hurricane Bianca.

Milford students are served by the Milford Independent School District, home of the Milford High School Bulldogs.

U.S. Route 77 runs through the center of Milford as Main Street, while Interstate 35E runs along the town's northern edge, about 48 miles south of downtown Dallas.