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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.

Midway within Meade County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 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

13 since 2003

Regional 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/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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 June 2012Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestrySIROCCO RD
2 April 2010Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2007Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 March 2009Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryRADIO TOWER HILL RD FIRE
19 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meade County

Storms near this place

11 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2025Thunderstorm WindMidway-A 60 mph wind gust was measured at the Meade County Kentucky Mesonet station.
March 2025HailMidway-At least quarter sized hail was observed along Sandy Hill Road.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindMidway-A tree was blocking an unknown roadway.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindMidway-Multiple trees were downed onto power lines and onto Kentucky Route 79.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindMidway-Meade County Kentucky Mesonet Station BRND observed a 63 mph wind gust.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindMidway-Trees and power lines were down on Blair Road.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindMidway-There was a tree down on Highway 79.
July 2014Flash FloodMidway-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 2012Thunderstorm WindMidway-A Kentucky Mesonet site recorded a wind gust of 60 mph.
February 2012Thunderstorm WindMidway-A trained spotter estimated 60 mph winds. Several large branches were downed.
June 1995HailMidway-Golf ball-size hail reported by law enforcement officials.

Every storm recorded in Meade 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
Sirocco3.1 miles15
Haysville3.4 miles14
Ekron3.5 miles14
Arnold (historical)4.0 miles15
Guston4.2 miles14
Payneville4.7 miles15
Brandenburg4.9 miles14
West Hill5.0 miles21

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 Q38249589The 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.