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Midway, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Midway census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36053. The Survey maps it on the Midway quadrangle. 421 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 538 feet above sea level.

Midway within Bullock County

On record in Midway

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Midway fell from 499 to 421 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010499
2020421-78 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

Fires near this place

85 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Midway between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,748 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 26 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
Debris and open burning29
Arson/incendiarism26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
30 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20160930-9
30 September 2007Debris and open burning6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190922-17
16 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.6 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190916-19
12 September 1999Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 July 2000Arson/incendiarism200 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bullock County

Storms near this place

10 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Midway in 10 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2000Thunderstorm WindMidway$125,000A microburst caused significant damage to The Triple M Quail Farm on CR 14. The wind destroyed three quail houses and damaged another. One tractor sustained damage when the roof of a building landed on it. 8500 quail were killed. The time was estimated.
December 2009Flash FloodMidway$10,000An estimated 3 to 4 inches of rain in a short time lead to flash flooding of several roads in the southeastern portion of Bullock County, some of which became impassable due to the high water.
January 2002Thunderstorm WindMidway$6,000Trees were blown down and blocking roadways near Midway. One mobile home suffered roof damage.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindMidway$5,000Several trees and powerlines were reported down along Hwy 82, southeast of Midway.
March 2002Thunderstorm WindMidway$2,000A few trees were blown down on CR 47 near Midway.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindMidway-Multiple trees uprooted in Midway.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindMidway-Several trees uprooted in the town of Midway.
December 2005HailMidway-Penny size hail was observed in Midway and in the Great Hope community.
January 2000Tornado (F0)Midway-A weak tornado briefly touched down near Midway. Several trees were blown down. No injuries were reported.
January 2000HailMidway-Nickel size hail was reported on Pine Grove Road near Midway Station.

Every storm recorded in Bullock 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Three Notch3.6 miles8
Pine Grove4.5 miles8
Enon5.6 miles8
Ox Level6.5 miles8
Peachburg8.1 miles9
Chunnenuggee8.5 miles8
Aberfoil8.7 miles8
Pickett8.8 miles7

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on MidwayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q68378The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 122703. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.