Midway, Kentucky
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Battletown-Payneville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40108. The Survey maps it on the Guston quadrangle. It stands 640 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1941 USGS Ekron quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Ekron quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Guston quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Guston quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Tell City quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Guston quadrangle1:24000
- 1991 USGS Tell City quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
13 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Midway between 2003 and 2012, burning about 38 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/undetermined | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 June 2012 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | SIROCCO RD |
| 2 April 2010 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 7 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 7 March 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 3 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 22 March 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 19 March 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | RADIO TOWER HILL RD FIRE |
| 19 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Midway in 11 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Midway | - | A 60 mph wind gust was measured at the Meade County Kentucky Mesonet station. |
| March 2025 | Hail | Midway | - | At least quarter sized hail was observed along Sandy Hill Road. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Midway | - | A tree was blocking an unknown roadway. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Midway | - | Multiple trees were downed onto power lines and onto Kentucky Route 79. |
| March 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Midway | - | Meade County Kentucky Mesonet Station BRND observed a 63 mph wind gust. |
| April 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Midway | - | Trees and power lines were down on Blair Road. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Midway | - | There was a tree down on Highway 79. |
| July 2014 | Flash Flood | Midway | - | A second round of thunderstorms within a 5 hour period brought flash flooding to an area just southwest of Brandenburg. A man was rescued by small boat from his home near the intersection of State Highways 79 and 1239. Five feet of water had entered his home. |
| March 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Midway | - | A Kentucky Mesonet site recorded a wind gust of 60 mph. |
| February 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Midway | - | A trained spotter estimated 60 mph winds. Several large branches were downed. |
| June 1995 | Hail | Midway | - | Golf ball-size hail reported by law enforcement officials. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sirocco | 3.1 miles | 15 | |
| Haysville | 3.4 miles | 14 | |
| Ekron | 3.5 miles | 14 | |
| Arnold (historical) | 4.0 miles | 15 | |
| Guston | 4.2 miles | 14 | |
| Payneville | 4.7 miles | 15 | |
| Brandenburg | 4.9 miles | 14 | |
| West Hill | 5.0 miles | 21 |
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 Midway | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q38249589 | The 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 498163. 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.









