Midway, New Mexico

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Portales census division. It lies in ZIP code area 88130. The Survey maps it on the Midway quadrangle.

Midway within Roosevelt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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.

1954 USGS Clovis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Clovis quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Clovis quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Midway quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

45 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Midway between 1994 and 2020, burning about 19,576 acres in total. 3 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	25
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Smoking	5
Natural	3
Debris and open burning	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

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
11 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	BONNER
30 July 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	CORNER
24 July 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	HIDDEN
20 July 2009	Power generation/transmission/distribution	10 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	KENW
24 June 2006	Natural	400 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	NM 88
15 June 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	CROWS NEST
13 June 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Capitan District	20-51590649X
13 June 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	KROPP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Roosevelt County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Midway: 4 unknowns, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Diatomite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Blackwater Draw Diatomaceous Earth Occurrences	Diatomite	Occurrence
Name Unknown Diatomite Prospect	Diatomite	Occurrence	Sedimentary
Daugherty Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Roosevelt 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
Cameo	2.4 miles	9
Portales	6.8 miles	8
Yerba	10.0 miles	8
Eiland (historical)	10.2 miles	9
Arch	11.2 miles	9
Bethel	12.4 miles	8
Tinsley Crossing	13.0 miles	8
Floyd	18.1 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 899796. 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.