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Midland, Arkansas

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Township 3. It lies in ZIP code area 72945. It stands on Johnson Branch. The Survey maps it on the Huntington quadrangle. 227 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 545 feet above sea level.

Midland within Sebastian County

Population over time

2 figures

Midland fell from 325 to 227 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
2010325
2020227-98 (-30%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 24 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

152 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 152 fires within 5 miles of Midland between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,798 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 28 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 burning46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined45
Arson/incendiarism28
Equipment and vehicle use10
Smoking9
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor4

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
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Natural20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2012Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sebastian County

Storms near this place

18 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Midland in 18 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 11 hail, 6 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2015HailMidland$20,000no account filed
February 1999Thunderstorm WindMidland$17,000Thunderstorm winds blew the roof off of a shop, tore off a chimney, destroyed a porch, destroyed a barn, destroyed an outhouse, and uprooted numerous trees in a localized area about one mile north of Midland.
April 2004Thunderstorm WindMidland$5,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew a trailer house over and blew down numerous large tree limbs.
January 1996Thunderstorm WindMidland$4,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindMidland$100Several large tree limbs were blown down
June 2023Thunderstorm WindMidland-Strong thunderstorm wind blew down several trees.
May 2020HailMidland-no account filed
March 2014HailMidland-no account filed
April 2011HailMidland-no account filed
March 2009HailMidland-no account filed
April 2009HailMidland-no account filed
May 2005Thunderstorm WindMidland-no account filed
May 2000HailMidland-no account filed
May 2000HailMidland-no account filed
June 1998Tornado (F0)Midland-no account filed
May 1998HailMidland-no account filed
March 1997HailMidland-no account filed
July 1994HailMidland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sebastian 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
Burna0.5 miles24
Montreal1.7 miles24
Arkola2.4 miles24
Prairie Creek2.8 miles24
Fox Hill3.3 miles24
Dill Place (historical)3.6 miles24
Frog Town3.7 miles24
Slaytonville4.7 miles23

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 MidlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1815546The 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 72643. 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.