Milano, TX

Milano is a city in Milam County, Texas, United States, located at the intersection of U.S. Route 79 and State Highway 36, 12 miles southeast of Cameron, the county seat. The 2020 census counted 390 residents. On November 5, 1960, country music singer Johnny Horton was killed by a drunk driver on Highway 79 near Milano on his way home from a performance at the Skyline Club in Austin. The International-Great Northern Railroad Company laid out the original site of Milano in 1874, about 1-1/2 mi west of the city's present site. Milano's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Texas setting. The local scoop is how Milano's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. A United States post office opened there the same year.