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Midway, Florida

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Sanford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32771. It lies near Beck Hammock. The Survey maps it on the Osteen quadrangle. 1,524 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Midway within Seminole County

Then and now

1955 to 1979

The same ground, surveyed 24 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 1955

Population over time

3 figures

Midway fell from 1,714 to 1,524 between 2000 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
20001,714
20101,705-9 (-1%)
20201,524-181 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

103 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Midway between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,446 acres in total. 39 started naturally. 4 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
Natural39
Railroad operations and maintenance27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Debris and open burning8
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1

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
27 September 2010Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWF-64-REED ELLIS
2 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2008Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceWF LAKE MONROE
8 August 2006Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceWF-STONE ISLAND ROAD
26 August 2002Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 August 1993Natural20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 August 2011Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service2575 ENTERPRISE-OSTEEN RD. (64)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Seminole County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Midway: 4 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Seminole County

Storms near this place

2 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Midway in 2 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2020Thunderstorm WindMidway-An amateur radio operator measured a peak wind gust of 62 mph on a personal weather station near the intersection of Lake Mary Boulevard and State Road 46.
March 1996Thunderstorm WindMidway-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Seminole 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
Canaan0.4 miles12
Beck Hammock0.7 miles12
Roseland Park0.9 miles12
Wynwood1.1 miles14
Indian Mound Village1.2 miles12
Bel-Air1.3 miles14
Sanlanta1.9 miles14
Lordland2.0 miles14

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 Q1904688The 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 286824. 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.