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Midway, Missouri

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Miller Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65608. It lies near Rockhouse Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Mansfield quadrangle.

Midway within Douglas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

93 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Midway between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,141 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 27 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
Debris and open burning53
Arson/incendiarism27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179176-03401-09022019-1640
19 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
14 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 August 2020Debris and open burning7.1 acresMissouri Department of Conservation220621-03401-08052020-1645
24 August 1999Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
22 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
20 August 2019Naturalunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation179175-03401-08202019-1619

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Midway: 10 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Lead, Zinc, Iron. 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
Browning LandIronPast Producer
Unknown - Lead + ZincLead, ZincPast Producer
Unknown Lead + ZincLead, ZincPast Producer
Chickasaw MineLeadPast Producer
Lead Hill MinesLeadPast Producer
St Joe MineLeadPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - SsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this place

14 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Midway in 14 storm reports between 2009 and 2024: 6 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain. 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
July 2018Thunderstorm WindMidway$4,000One power pole was snapped and a second was bent over East 76 Highway. The time was based on radar.
May 2024HailMidway-Report of baseball size hail.
May 2024HailMidway-Report of golf ball size hail.
May 2024HailMidway-Report of hail 3 inches in diameter.
May 2024Heavy RainMidway-Rainfall of 3.92 inches was reported as the 24 hour measurement, with most of that falling in the last 6 hours.
November 2024Heavy RainMidway-CoCoRaHS station MO-DG-6 located 3.7 miles south-southeast of Mansfield measured a 2-day rainfall total of 9.50 inches.
April 2022Flash FloodMidway-Highway 5 at Bryant Creek was flooded and impassable.
October 2021Thunderstorm WindMidway-A large tree was uprooted along County Road 101 north of Bryant Creek.
May 2018Flash FloodMidway-Highway B was flooded with debris in the road.
March 2017HailMidway-This report was from social media with a picture.
July 2015Tornado (EF0)Midway-A NWS storm survey confirmed an EF-0 tornado touched down just west of the intersection of County Roads 102 and 101 and traveled northward along County Road 101. There were numerous trees that were blown down or uprooted as well as power lines down. The maximum estimated winds were up to 80 mph and the path width was about 100 yards.
October 2009Flash FloodMidway-Route U was closed due to flash flooding.
April 2017HailMidway-no account filed
May 2013HailMidway-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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
Bryant1.1 miles13
Basher2.3 miles13
Mount Zion3.7 miles15
Olathia4.0 miles13
Zenda5.3 miles15
Ava6.4 miles13
Larissa6.8 miles13
Brushyknob7.3 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 741064. 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.

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.