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Midland, Kansas

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1960. It stands in Grant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66044. The Survey maps it on the Midland quadrangle. It stands 840 feet above sea level.

Midland within Douglas County

On record in Midland

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 23 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

118 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Midland between 2009 and 2020, burning about 1,776 acres in total. None started naturally. 19 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined46
Debris and open burning34
Arson/incendiarism19
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking7
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
7 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDouglas County8594
22 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDouglas County9130
8 August 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service7969
5 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDouglas County7332
3 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service7782
29 August 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDouglas County8263
9 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service6807
4 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service6630

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

7 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Midland in 7 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 6 hail, 1 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
April 2023HailMidland-Half dollar sized hail reported.
November 2016HailMidland-Penny size hail observed. Heavy rain was also occurring.
April 2011HailMidland-no account filed
April 2010HailMidland-no account filed
April 2009HailMidland-no account filed
April 2002HailMidland-no account filed
August 1997Thunderstorm WindMidland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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
Bismark Grove3.5 miles19
Lawrence3.9 miles19
Noria6.4 miles19
Broken Arrow Park6.7 miles19
Kanwaka7.9 miles21
Lecompton8.2 miles24
Eudora9.6 miles21
Sibleyville10.2 miles19

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 MidlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6842294The 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 484869. 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.