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Midway, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Plant City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33565. The Survey maps it on the Plant City East quadrangle.

Midway within Hillsborough County

Then and now

1944 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 50 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Midway, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Midway, surveyed 1944

Compare 1944 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

86 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Midway between 1992 and 2020, burning about 755 acres in total. 6 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
Railroad operations and maintenance28
Debris and open burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Arson/incendiarism9
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony2

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
8 August 1992Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 June 2000Railroad operations and maintenance6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 June 2000Natural30 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 June 2000Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 June 2015Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCORONET (29)
21 June 1992Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
14 June 2011Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceALSOBROOK (29)
14 June 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hillsborough 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, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand, Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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
Plant City CfPhosphorus-PhosphatesPlant
Alvin Futch Co. - Grimmer PitSandProducer
Bishop & Buttrey, Inc. - Wilder Pit #23 MineSandUnknown
Dot Bartow Office - I-4 MineSandUnknown
Dot Tampa - Cason MineSandUnknownSand
Lewis Pogue - Pogue MineSandUnknown
Willis Ekhoff - Ekhoff MineSandUnknown

Every working recorded in Hillsborough 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
Knights2.3 miles16
Mount Enon2.4 miles16
Shilow2.4 miles16
Youmans3.2 miles16
Plant City3.4 miles16
Moriczville4.6 miles16
Coronet5.5 miles12
Hopewell Gardens6.2 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295447. 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.