Midway, Arkansas
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in District 1. It lies in ZIP code area 72651. The Survey maps it on the Midway quadrangle. 1,036 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 889 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMidway fell from 1,084 to 1,036 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,084 | |
| 2020 | 1,036 | -48 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 19 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1890 USGS Mountain Home quadrangle1:125000
- 1891 USGS Mountain Home quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Mountain Home quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1945 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Midway quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1979 USGS Midway quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Bull Shoals Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1985 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
48 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Midway between 1997 and 2020, burning about 581 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 9 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 | 16 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 27 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 September 2000 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 August 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 August 2012 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 July 2011 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 July 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Buffalo National River | COZY FIRE |
| 17 July 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 12 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Midway: 5 prospects, 3 unknowns, 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gentry Mine | Iron | Prospect | ||
| Mcguire Quarry | Dolomite | Past Producer | ||
| Mcguire Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Mcguire Quarry No.1 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Mountain Home Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Unk | Stone | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Stone | Unknown | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Bald Dave Prospect | Lead, Zinc | Prospect | ||
| Big John Prospect | Lead, Zinc | Prospect |
Storms near this place
26 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Midway in 26 storm reports between 1993 and 2020: 10 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Midway | $150,000 | At a mobile home park, four mobile homes were severely damaged and eight other suffered lesser amounts of damage. Several people were briefly trapped inside the mobile homes, but there were no injuries. The laundromat building had its roof taken off and some of the walls removed. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Midway | $15,000 | A tree fell onto a car, trapping the people inside. They were extricated and found to have no injuries. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Midway | $10,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down near the intersection of Arkansas 5 and Arkansas 126. |
| July 2010 | Flash Flood | Midway | $10,000 | Considerable street flooding occurred in Mountain Home. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Midway | $2,000 | A tree was blown down onto a power line. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Midway | - | A golf ball sized hail report in Midway was received via social media. |
| November 2019 | Flash Flood | Midway | - | Roads were closed between Mountain Home and Oakland due to high water. |
| August 2013 | Flash Flood | Midway | - | Parts of Baxter County Road 27 flooded and became impassable. |
| June 2007 | Flash Flood | Midway | - | Arkansas Highway 5 was covered by a foot of water at several locations north of Midway. |
| August 2006 | Flash Flood | Midway | - | High water covered Highway 126. |
| January 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Midway | - | Thunderstorm winds downed some large tree limbs, knocked down a large tree onto power lines and blew away a carport. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Midway | - | Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree onto Highway 5 north of Midway. |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Midway | - | Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines over sections of Baxter County. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Midway | - | Trees and power lines were blown down. |
| November 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Midway | - | A few large limbs were blown down. |
| March 1993 | Hail | Midway | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down a house that was under construction. Roofs were also blown off several homes. |
| September 2012 | Hail | Midway | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Midway | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Midway | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Midway | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Midway | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Midway | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Midway | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Midway | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Midway | - | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Tornado (F0) | Midway | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkawana | 1.3 miles | 19 | |
| Monkey Run | 2.9 miles | 18 | |
| Spring Lake Estates | 3.0 miles | 18 | |
| Lakeview | 4.6 miles | 18 | |
| Three Brothers | 4.6 miles | 19 | |
| Whiteville | 4.8 miles | 18 | |
| Amos | 5.1 miles | 18 | |
| Independence (historical) | 5.2 miles | 18 |
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 Midway | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6843148 | The 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 58176. 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.











