Midland, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Columbus North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31820. The Survey maps it on the Midland quadrangle.

Midland within Muscogee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1907 USGS Talbotton quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1949 USGS Midland quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1950 USGS Ellerslie quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Ellerslie quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Midland quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Thomaston quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

99 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Midland between 1992 and 2019, burning about 354 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 26 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 burning	51
Arson/incendiarism	26
Smoking	5
Recreation and ceremony	5
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Natural	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	2.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2016	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-MUSCOGEE-002
25 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1999	Debris and open burning	3.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2010	Smoking	2.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-HARRIS-007
13 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-HARRIS-005
22 August 1998	Debris and open burning	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muscogee County

Storms near this place

9 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Midland in 9 storm reports between 2006 and 2024: 7 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Midland	$10,000	The Columbus local broadcast media reported several trees blown down from County Line Road to Fulton Road.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Midland	$4,000	The Muscogee County 911 Center reported that at least 10 trees were down in the Midland area. Some of the trees fell on power lines.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Midland	$1,500	Local television media from Columbus reported that a few trees were down on U.S. Highway 27 in northeast Muscogee county. One tree was also down on and blocking Warm Springs Road.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Midland	$1,500	The Muscogee County 911 Center reported that at least six trees were down three miles west of Midland. The public reported that a fence was destroyed by the wind in Midland.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Midland	$1,000	A tree was reported down on power lines on garrett rd between warm springs rd and county line rd.
December 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Midland	$1,000	A Columbus TV news reporter reported a couple of trees blown down and metal patio furniture blown off of a deck in the Midland community.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Midland	$1,000	The public reported that several trees and power lines were down around Midland. Some were down across roads. The Columbus Ledger reported that downed power lines resulted in approximately 14,000 people being left without power for several hours following the storm.
May 2012	Hail	Midland	-	The Broadcast Media reported that dime to quarter sized hail fell in Midland.
July 2011	Hail	Midland	-	The public observed quarter to slightly less than golf ball-sized hail across far north central Muscogee county. Most of the hail was the size of quarters to half-dollars.

Every storm recorded in Muscogee 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Commonwealth (historical)	2.5 miles	17
Beaver Run	2.8 miles	17
Flat Rock	2.8 miles	17
Foxrun	3.6 miles	17
Williamsburg	4.2 miles	18
Flat Rock Estates	4.2 miles	18
Leesburg	4.5 miles	18
Arrowhead Estates	4.5 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 318098. 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.