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Midway, Arkansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Marion County Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72687. It lies near Pine Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Cotter NW quadrangle. It stands 810 feet above sea level.

Midway within Marion County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 17 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

14 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Midway between 1998 and 2016, burning about 275 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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
Arson/incendiarism5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning3
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
23 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionMAR27893368
22 August 2014Natural2.0 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionMAR27746351
8 June 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 April 2016Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 April 2007Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 April 2006Arson/incendiarism35 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 April 2010Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 April 2004Arson/incendiarism10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Midway: 15 occurrences, 9 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc. 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
Big Buck ProspectLead, ZincOccurrence
Cincinnati Bill MineLead, ZincUnknown
Durham ProspectLead, ZincOccurrence
FrostLead, ZincUnknown
Hoffman ProspectLead, ZincOccurrence
Mitchell MineLead, ZincOccurrenceGalena, Smithsonite, Sphalerite
Bardeen ProspectLead, ZincOccurrence
Big Saddle ProspectLead, ZincOccurrence
Big Star MineLead, ZincUnknown
Booth MineLead, ZincUnknown

Every working recorded in Marion 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
Bull Shoals4.7 miles18
Pine Branch4.8 miles17
Stone (historical)5.1 miles17
Kingdom Springs (historical)5.4 miles17
Peel5.8 miles16
Oakland6.0 miles18
Fairview6.2 miles18
Price Place6.5 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 Q14681233The 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 57117. 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.