Midway, Missouri

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Reddish Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63452. The Survey maps it on the Williamstown quadrangle.

Midway within Lewis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

1903 USGS Kahoka quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1950 USGS Williamstown quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1951 USGS Williamstown quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1961 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Keokuk quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1990 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

13 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Midway between 1992 and 2020, burning about 107 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	8
Debris and open burning	3
Equipment and vehicle use	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
14 August 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
14 June 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	230682-02079-06142020-1302
6 April 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
2 April 1997	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
17 April 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
12 April 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	140920-02079-04122016-1428
5 March 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
22 March 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
New Court Village	3.7 miles	16
Bunker Hill (historical)	4.9 miles	16
Lewistown	5.1 miles	16
Deer Ridge	5.2 miles	16
La Belle	5.4 miles	16
Williamstown	5.9 miles	17
Monticello	6.7 miles	15
Tolona	9.0 miles	15

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 Q27985699	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 732801. 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.