Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Milford, UT

Milford is a city in Beaver County, Utah, in the Escalante Desert, and the 2020 census counted 1,431 residents in 475 households, with a median age of 33.1 years.

Milford was not developed until the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad established a station here in 1880, the same year Arvin Stoddard moved here and surveyed a townsite.

Milford is a constructed name, formed from the words mill and ford.

Milford was incorporated in 1903, after its roughly 279 residents at the turn of the century petitioned the county commission.

During the 1880s Milford became the railroad terminal for the Southern Utah Line and was an important loading place for the cattle of southern Utah.

During the Great Depression, workers from a nearby Civilian Conservation Corps camp built the road from Milford to Beaver.

Lightning started the Milford Flat Fire near the city on July 6, 2007, and it burned more than 283,000 acres, becoming the largest wildfire in Utah history.

State Route 21 passes through Milford, leading south 14 miles to Minersville and northwest 84 miles to U.S. Routes 6 and 50 near the Nevada line, while State Route 257 runs north 74 miles to Delta.

Milford sits between the Mineral Mountains to the east and the smaller Star Range to the west, at an elevation of 4,961 feet.

Milford has a semi-arid climate, with a record high of 107 degrees Fahrenheit and a record low of minus 35 degrees.