Midway, Idaho

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Lewisville-Menan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83434. The Survey maps it on the Lewisville quadrangle.

Midway within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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.

1948 USGS Lewisville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1949 USGS Lewisville quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS Roberts quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Idaho Falls quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1958 USGS Idaho Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Circular Butte quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

3 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Midway between 1997 and 2012, burning about 57 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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	2
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
16 May 2012	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Falls District	MENAN BUTTE
21 April 2003	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Idaho Falls District	ANNIS
16 October 1997	Debris and open burning	55 acres	Idaho Falls District	LEWISVILLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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: 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold. 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
Market Lake Placer	Gold	Past Producer	Placer
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson 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
Lewisville	0.8 miles	13
Menan	1.2 miles	12
Barlow	2.5 miles	13
Annis	3.9 miles	12
Grant	4.6 miles	13
Rigby	5.3 miles	12
Garfield	5.4 miles	12
Bassett	5.9 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 396892. 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.