Midway Service Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Roosevelt County · listed in 2005 · category: Building.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 38797 US 70, Kenna, 88116
When was it listed? January 2005
Category. building
Census division. Elida
National Register reference number. 04001479 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

22 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Midway Service Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,104 acres in total. 5 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
Natural	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
12 August 2011	Natural	10 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	RUNNING N
5 July 2019	Natural	2.0 acres	Capitan District	20-50130065X
30 July 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MM387
26 July 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	383
1 July 1994	Natural	1,400 acres	Roswell Field Office	FRY LAK
6 June 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MM 394
22 June 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	MM 386
21 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Capitan District	20-51720685X

Every fire recorded in Roosevelt County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Midway Service Station: 4 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Materials Pit	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

Storms near this property

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kenna, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2017: 7 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2017	Hail	Kenna	-	Quarter size hail along U.S. Highway 70.
May 2017	Hail	Kenna	-	Nickel size hail near Kenna.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Kenna	-	Several large trees limbs broken off tree in yard.
May 2011	Hail	Kenna	-	Spotter reported mostly pea sized hail, but a few stones were as large as a nickel.
May 2008	Hail	Kenna	-	The ground was completely covered with hail. The hail broke small tree branches.
May 1998	Funnel Cloud	Kenna	-	A funnel cloud was reported by Sheriff Deputy.
May 2014	Hail	Kenna	-	no account filed
May 2010	Hail	Kenna	-	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Kenna	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Roosevelt County

Newspapers printed here

2,183 digitised pages

1 paper published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 390 issues, 2,183 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

Newspaper	Published
The Kenna Record	190? to 1924

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04001479 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Roosevelt County	All 6 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
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.