Midway, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Turnerville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30577. The Survey maps it on the Ayersville quadrangle.

Midway within Habersham County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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.

1886 USGS Walhalla quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Walhalla quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1896 USGS Walhalla quadrangle1:125000
1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Ayersville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Toccoa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

264 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 264 fires within 5 miles of Midway between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,095 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 66 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	116
Arson/incendiarism	66
Equipment and vehicle use	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Railroad operations and maintenance	15
Natural	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	3

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
7 September 2019	Debris and open burning	7.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020HABERSHAM001
6 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	HIGHWAY 365#1,#2,#3
18 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	2.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	3.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2008	Debris and open burning	1.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Habersham County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Midway: 2 past producers, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Nichols Placer	Gold	Past Producer	Stream Placer
Panther Creek Prospect	Iron	Occurrence	Pyrrhotite
Scott Brothers Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Toccoa Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Habersham 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
Dicks Hill	2.3 miles	18
Hollywood	3.0 miles	19
Anandale (historical)	3.8 miles	19
Dixon Crossroads	4.6 miles	19
Turnerville	5.0 miles	19
Shorts Mill	5.2 miles	18
Hills	5.7 miles	18
Clarkesville	6.0 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 328766. 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.