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Midway, Florida

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Mayo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32066. The Survey maps it on the Mayo SE quadrangle.

Midway within Lafayette County

Then and now

1954 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 25 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 1979
Topographic sheet of Midway, surveyed 1954

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

128 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of Midway between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,455 acres in total. 22 started naturally. 8 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 burning35
Natural22
Equipment and vehicle use20
Railroad operations and maintenance16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Arson/incendiarism8
Other causes3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Fireworks1

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
29 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceALTON ROAD (34)
20 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceMIDWAY TOWER (34)
6 August 2011Natural16 acresFlorida Forest ServiceREGIS (34)
31 August 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceCOUNTY ROAD 410 (34)
25 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Service34-ROADSIDE SHOULDER-#0205
2 August 1992Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
14 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lafayette County

Storms near this place

11 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Midway in 11 storm reports between 2005 and 2026: 9 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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
April 2005Tornado (F0)Midway$125,000A tornado touched down and destroyed four chicken houses, overturned a trailer and twisted roofing tin around trees of the Pickett Lake community. It also uprooted trees, downed power lines and scattered debris. Reported by the Lafayette County EMA.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindMidway$4,000Fallen trees or large limbs resulted in power outages along Highway 27 east of Mayo as reported on the Duke Energy outage website.
January 2024Thunderstorm WindMidway$2,000Fallen trees or limbs resulted in a power outage along SE Komondor Road.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindMidway$2,000Trees and power lines were blown down.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindMidway$2,000A tree was blown down onto power lines near SE Walter Henderson Road.
February 2026Thunderstorm WindMidway-Trees were blown down in Lafayette county.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindMidway-A tree fell on a power line on E US 27 near County Road 412.
December 2020Thunderstorm WindMidway-Fallen trees and limbs resulted in a power outage along Highway 27 via the Duke Energy Outage map.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindMidway-A tree was blown down along SE Ferret Road.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindMidway-A tree was blown down onto County Road 412.
May 2012Heavy RainMidway-A storm total of 12.65 inches was measured through 6:30 am EDT at the Suwannee River Water Management rain gauge MDWF1.

Every storm recorded in Lafayette 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
Alton4.2 miles8
Mayo5.8 miles8
San Pedro Junction7.2 miles8
Grady8.7 miles10
Peterson9.1 miles8
Cooks Hammock11.9 miles10
Buckville13.9 miles9
Hatchbend14.2 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295448. 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.

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.