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Midway, Kansas

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Baker Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66762. The Survey maps it on the Pittsburg quadrangle.

Midway within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 24 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

114 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 114 fires within 5 miles of Midway between 2015 and 2020, burning about 514 acres in total. None started naturally. 16 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/undetermined63
Debris and open burning26
Arson/incendiarism16
Fireworks4
Equipment and vehicle use4
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
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKansas Forest Service730019
22 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreCrawford County1695
16 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCrawford County128
16 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service90
13 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service76
3 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
5 July 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service1095
4 July 2015Fireworksunder an acreKansas Forest Service39

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

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

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
W.S.Dickey Clay PlantClayProducer

Every working recorded in Crawford 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
Cornell1.0 miles24
Litchfield1.1 miles24
Yale2.5 miles24
Frontenac3.1 miles24
Curranville4.4 miles24
Fox Town4.5 miles24
Pittsburg4.7 miles24
Fuller5.1 miles26

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 Q17199026The 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 484480. 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.