Mid, Alabama

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Town Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35755. It lies near Center Point. The Survey maps it on the Columbus City quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Mid within Marshall County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 23 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1885 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:125000
1888 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:125000
1895 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:125000
1903 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1936 USGS Columbus City quadrangle1:24000
1947 USGS Columbus City quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1949 USGS Columbus City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Guntersville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

77 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Mid (historical) between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,544 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 27 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Arson/incendiarism	27
Debris and open burning	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Recreation and ceremony	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Other causes	1
Smoking	1
Natural	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2016	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160907-2
4 September 1995	Railroad operations and maintenance	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	16 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	65 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Five Points	1.4 miles	23
Meltonsville	2.5 miles	23
Tanglewood	2.8 miles	23
Pendergrass (historical)	3.1 miles	22
Kirbytown	3.3 miles	21
Breezeway Bay	3.4 miles	21
Poplar Springs	3.5 miles	23
Glen Haven	3.6 miles	23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 139437. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.