City of Milford

Announcements

Ellis County Commissioners' Court Approves Stay Home Stay Safe Order

The “Stay Home, Stay Safe” order from Ellis County is effective as of 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, March 25, 2020. This order will be effective through 11:59 p.m. on Friday, April 03, 2020, unless extended by the Ellis County Commissioners Court or rescinded by the Ellis County Judge.

For more information and a full outline of the order please visit: https://co.ellis.tx.us/DocumentCenter/View/11040/Ellis-County-Stay-Home-Stay-Safe-Order

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Important Notice

In order to minimize the impact of the COVID-19 virus to our citizens and city staff. Effective Thursday, March 19, 2020, and until further notice, Milford City Hall will be closed to the public. Citizens can make utility payments online at; www.paytexas.com/index by mail or utilize the drop box in front of City Hall.

City employees will still be available during regular office hours. If you are needing assistance feel free to call city hall at 972-493-3161.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

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Proclamation Declaring Disaster for the City of Milford

Posted March 18, 2020

Disaster Declaration

For any information on how to get tested for COVID-19 please call 211 option 6

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Municipal Court has CANCELED ALL upcoming court dockets.

Notices will be mailed out when a new hearing is set.

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Water bill payments can be paid online at www.paytexas.com/index

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April Council Meeting

Monday, April 13, 2020 @ 6:00 pm

(Milford Community Center, 109 S. Main)

About Us

MILFORD, TEXAS. Milford is an incorporated rural community on U.S. Highway 77 and Interstate 35e twenty miles south of Waxahachie in southern Ellis County. In the early 1850s several men from Cherokee County came to the Mill Creek valley and bought land from Ellis County landowner Arvin Wright at fifty cents an acre. The new landowners arrived with their families in 1853. In 1854 Wright, William R. Hudson, and J. M. Higgins laid out town lots atop a ridge just south of the creek, and Hudson named the new community Milford, after a factory town near Boston he had read about. In 1853 the first house, Hudson's combined residence and general store, was built; Hudson was also the first postmaster when a post office was granted the next year. A two-story stone schoolhouse built in 1853 also served as a church and community hall until it was burned during the Civil War. A gristmill began operation at the community in 1857. Milford incorporated in 1888, and W. R. McDaniel was the first mayor.

Welcome to the City of Milford