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Midland, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Bremen census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42330. The Survey maps it on the Central City West quadrangle. It stands 476 feet above sea level.

Midland within Muhlenberg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

57 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Midland between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,520 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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/undetermined23
Debris and open burning12
Recreation and ceremony10
Arson/incendiarism9
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
6 September 2010Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGAS WELL
5 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 1999Smoking2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 September 2010Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFURLOUGHWEEN
27 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 September 1999Arson/incendiarism165 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muhlenberg County

Storms near this place

1 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Midland in 1 storm report in 1998: 1 hail. 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
June 1998HailMidland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Muhlenberg 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
McDonalds (historical)1.2 miles14
Gishton1.5 miles16
Sandy2.0 miles14
Cherry Hill (historical)3.4 miles16
East Union (historical)3.5 miles14
Briar Creek3.6 miles14
Morehead3.7 miles16
New Cypress3.8 miles16

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 Q6842295The 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 508599. 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.