Midway, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Thomasville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36784. The Survey maps it on the Bashi quadrangle.

Midway within Clarke County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

1953 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Bashi quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Monroeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

52 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Midway between 1994 and 2018, burning about 522 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 7 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	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Arson/incendiarism	7
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Natural	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	2

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
6 September 2002	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 1999	Smoking	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2014	Natural	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20140902-002
17 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
31 July 2015	Natural	97 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20150803-002
16 July 2000	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clarke County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Midway: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fullers Earth, Zeolites. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Tallahatta Claystone, Clarke County	Fullers Earth, Zeolites	Prospect	BEDDED

Every working recorded in Clarke 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
Rural	3.0 miles	7
Thomasville	3.4 miles	8
Choctaw Corner	3.8 miles	8
Springfield	3.9 miles	8
Roundhill	4.1 miles	8
Glover	4.5 miles	8
Tallahatta Springs	4.9 miles	8
McWer	5.2 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156706. 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.