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Midway, Missouri

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Thayer Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65791. The Survey maps it on the Couch quadrangle.

Midway within Oregon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

40 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Midway between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,002 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning30
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution1.2 acresMissouri Department of Conservation179049-07521-09062019-1301
14 August 2001Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
30 July 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
26 July 1997Natural5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
23 July 1997Debris and open burning8.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
18 June 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177150-07521-06182018-1436
3 May 1992Debris and open burning9.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 April 2013Debris and open burning89 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oregon County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Midway: 6 past producers, 4 prospects, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Bowers S&G PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Bowers Sand & Gravel PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer1954
Amos Cozzins MineIronPast Producer1930
Amos Watson MineIronPast Producer1939
Clyde Led Be Her ProspectIronProspect
Cold Rock Hollow MineIronPast ProducerSurface
Cold Rock Hollow MineIronPast Producer
Everett Hardwick MineIronPast Producer1952
Gus Hubble ProspectIronProspect
Pete Neiddleker PlaceIronOccurrenceSurface

Every working recorded in Oregon 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
Sloan Ford4.4 miles13
Clifton4.7 miles13
Couch5.0 miles13
Corona5.4 miles13
Allen Ford5.5 miles13
Simpson6.5 miles13
Thayer6.8 miles13
Culp Ford7.0 miles12

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 Q27986210The 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 735205. 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.