Midway, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Beatrice census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36401. The Survey maps it on the Skinnerton quadrangle.

Midway within Monroe 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
1971 USGS Skinnerton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Monroeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

49 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Midway between 1994 and 2020, burning about 427 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Debris and open burning	14
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Arson/incendiarism	4
Smoking	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
16 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	12 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	HWY 47N & 83, AL
30 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20140830-001
24 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20120824-001
18 July 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 July 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 June 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	CORD47/106, AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Midway: 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
	Mon 1 Clay Prospect	Clay	Prospect
	Mon 5 Clay Prospect	Clay	Prospect

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

3 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Midway in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2024	Tornado (EF2)	Midway	-	A unique, long track multi-vortex EF2 tornado occurred from just south-southwest of Midway, Alabama, tracking east-southeast through Georgiana, Alabama on the morning of May 10th, 2024. This tornado began south of Midway west of County Road 5 where it quickly intensified to EF2 strength after crossing this road. The tornado wiped out an entire section of forest with numerous low tree snaps and uproots at this location. As the tornado continued east-southeast, it weakened briefly until reaching County Road 79. Here the tornado became a large multi-vortex with at least 4 to 5 distinct sub-vortices that spanned from just north of County Road 106 to just north of County Road 79 in Commerce, indicating the larger parent tornado vortex was upwards of 0.7 miles wide (1,200 yards). Several of the sub-vortices were around EF1 to EF2 intensity, and where several of these vortices merged into the center of the tornado path north of Commerce, nearly the entire forest sustained tree snaps or uproots. As the tornado continued southeast, it crossed County Road 33 where a potential satellite tornado or sub-vortex rotated in from the southwest. EF2 tree damage including numerous tree snaps or uproots were noted east of this location after the sub-vortex merged into the main tornado track. Periodic high-end EF1 to low end EF2 tree damage persisted through State Highway 106 and Hank Williams Road. Here the tornado broke down into at least 5 sub-vortices that once again were confined within a .7 mile diameter. Each sub-vortex was around mid to high end EF1 intensity with its own focused convergent damage path. Along the centerline of the tornado track, low end EF2 damage to trees occurred in the area. The tornado continued southeast towards I-65, flipping a manufactured home a couple times along State Highway 106 across from the gas station. The tornado became much narrower and weaker as it continued into Georgiana, periodically uprooting or snapping trees along its path. The final observable damage location was near and just east of Taft Skipper Road where a couple outbuildings were destroyed, and a small swath of trees were uprooted in a convergent pattern. This survey was able to be completed with the assistance of NASA SPoRT, NASAMSFC, NASA CSDA and the NASA Disasters Program providing high resolution Planet satellite imagery and with Digital Globe Maxar for high resolution Worldview satellite imagery. Without the availability of this remote sensing imagery, the true path length, width, track, and intensity of this tornado would not have been able to be determined.
April 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Midway	-	High winds downed trees on Highway 29 and Old Federal Road.
March 1997	Hail	Midway	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Riley	4.1 miles	9
Old Texas	4.3 miles	7
Turnbull	4.4 miles	9
Turkestan (historical)	6.9 miles	7
Pineville	7.0 miles	9
Pine Orchard	7.1 miles	9
Beatrice	8.3 miles	9
Kalem	8.9 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156705. 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.

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.