About Milford
Milford is located in the Escalante Desert, in a spacious but arid valley, at the edge of the bottoms of the Beaver River. The water supplied by the river has been important to the ranching industry in the area.
Milford's earliest inhabitants were miners who lived in shacks near their mines. Arvin Stoddard and John D. Williams made a formal settlement here in 1880. The railroad came to Milford in the 1880's and later was extended into Nevada. Milford was incorporated in 1903. The population of Milford has risen and declined with the mining, cattle and railroad industries. As of 2000 1,451 people live here.
