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Midway, Kansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Ash Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67454. The Survey maps it on the Geneseo quadrangle.

Midway within Ellsworth County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Midway between 2016 and 2017, burning about 1,000 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
24 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,000 acresEllsworth CountyRATHBUN FIRE
4 November 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKansas Forest Service91

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ellsworth 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
Frantz (historical)6.0 miles15
Kanopolis7.0 miles14
Yankee Run7.8 miles14
Lorraine9.1 miles14
Venango9.1 miles18
Ellsworth9.2 miles14
Kanopolis Lake Park10.6 miles16
Langley11.0 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484738. 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.