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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.

Midway within Baxter County

Population over time

2 figures

Midway 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,084
20201,036-48 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 19 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

48 since 1997

Regional 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 burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural2

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
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined27 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2000Natural1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
15 August 2012Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 July 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 July 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreBuffalo National RiverCOZY FIRE
17 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baxter County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gentry MineIronProspect
Mcguire QuarryDolomitePast Producer
Mcguire PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mcguire Quarry No.1Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mountain Home PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkStoneUnknown
UnkStoneUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Bald Dave ProspectLead, ZincProspect
Big John ProspectLead, ZincProspect

Every working recorded in Baxter County

Storms near this place

26 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2012Thunderstorm WindMidway$150,000At 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 2013Thunderstorm WindMidway$15,000A tree fell onto a car, trapping the people inside. They were extricated and found to have no injuries.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindMidway$10,000Trees and power lines were blown down near the intersection of Arkansas 5 and Arkansas 126.
July 2010Flash FloodMidway$10,000Considerable street flooding occurred in Mountain Home.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindMidway$2,000A tree was blown down onto a power line.
May 2020HailMidway-A golf ball sized hail report in Midway was received via social media.
November 2019Flash FloodMidway-Roads were closed between Mountain Home and Oakland due to high water.
August 2013Flash FloodMidway-Parts of Baxter County Road 27 flooded and became impassable.
June 2007Flash FloodMidway-Arkansas Highway 5 was covered by a foot of water at several locations north of Midway.
August 2006Flash FloodMidway-High water covered Highway 126.
January 2005Thunderstorm WindMidway-Thunderstorm winds downed some large tree limbs, knocked down a large tree onto power lines and blew away a carport.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindMidway-Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree onto Highway 5 north of Midway.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindMidway-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines over sections of Baxter County.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindMidway-Trees and power lines were blown down.
November 1995Thunderstorm WindMidway-A few large limbs were blown down.
March 1993HailMidway-Thunderstorm winds blew down a house that was under construction. Roofs were also blown off several homes.
September 2012HailMidway-no account filed
July 2003HailMidway-no account filed
August 2003HailMidway-no account filed
August 2003HailMidway-no account filed
April 2003HailMidway-no account filed
May 2003HailMidway-no account filed
May 2003HailMidway-no account filed
May 2003HailMidway-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindMidway-no account filed
March 1996Tornado (F0)Midway-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Baxter 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
Arkawana1.3 miles19
Monkey Run2.9 miles18
Spring Lake Estates3.0 miles18
Lakeview4.6 miles18
Three Brothers4.6 miles19
Whiteville4.8 miles18
Amos5.1 miles18
Independence (historical)5.2 miles18

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 MidwayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6843148The 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.