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Midway, Arkansas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Prairie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71941. It stands on West Fork DeLisle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Social Hill quadrangle. 377 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 269 feet above sea level.

Midway within Hot Spring County

Population over time

2 figures

Midway fell from 389 to 377 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
2010389
2020377-12 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

140 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 140 fires within 5 miles of Midway between 1997 and 2019, burning about 850 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 29 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 burning44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Arson/incendiarism29
Equipment and vehicle use20
Natural8
Smoking6
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
9 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2009Natural3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2000Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hot Spring County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Midway: 5 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Caddo QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Cook Brothers Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Hot Spring County

Storms near this place

5 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Midway in 5 storm reports between 1995 and 2016: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
October 2008Thunderstorm WindMidway$20,000A large tree damaged a house.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindMidway-A large tree was reported down on Highway 84.
October 2008HailMidway-Golfball sized hail fell between Donaldson and Friendship.
June 1995HailMidway-Thunderstorm winds blew down some large tree limbs.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindMidway-Thunderstorm winds blew down some large tree limbs.

Every storm recorded in Hot Spring 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
Donaldson2.4 miles9
Friendship3.0 miles9
Saginaw3.5 miles11
Antioch4.2 miles11
Etta (historical)5.1 miles11
Elmore (historical)5.2 miles12
Caney6.0 miles7
Social Hill6.0 miles11

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 Q6843184The 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 58171. 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.