Midway, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Greenville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36042. The Survey maps it on the Honoraville quadrangle.

Midway within Butler County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1953 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Honoraville quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

75 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Midway between 1994 and 2020, burning about 664 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 10 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 burning	30
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Arson/incendiarism	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
Natural	3
Smoking	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
26 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	27 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	JOE KILLOUGH RD, AL
15 September 2010	Debris and open burning	29 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2016	Debris and open burning	3.6 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160910-16
7 August 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20200807-1
21 July 2000	Natural	120 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 July 1996	Natural	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 June 2000	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 June 2000	Natural	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butler County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 103 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 103 workings within 5 miles of Midway: 48 unknowns, 46 past producers, 5 occurrences, 4 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Cre 4 Clay Prospect	Clay	Prospect
Butler County Brown Iron Ore Deposit	Iron	Past Producer	1929
Carl F Parrish Prospect	Iron	Prospect
R E Smith Prospect	Iron	Prospect
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown

Every working recorded in Butler 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
Mashville	4.2 miles	8
Glasgow	4.9 miles	8
Daisy	6.0 miles	7
Spring Hill	7.1 miles	8
Halso Mill	7.5 miles	7
Greenville	8.2 miles	8
Sardis	9.5 miles	7
Searcy	10.3 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 122702. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.