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Midway, Ohio
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Range Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43151. The Survey maps it on the Midway quadrangle. 269 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,063 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMidway fell from 322 to 269 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 322 | |
| 2020 | 269 | -53 (-16%) |
Then and now
1906 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1906 USGS Mt Sterling quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Midway quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Midway quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
6,669 words on this townshipHistory of Madison County, Ohio : Its People, Industries and Institution with Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families, published 1915 names this settlement in its chapter on Range Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Cornelius Johnson, a native of Maryland, married Sarah Andrews, and, in 1803, with his family, emigrated to Ohio, settling first in Ross county. About 1817-18 he removed to Madison county and settled on the Suver farm, in Range county, but, prior to his death, he returned to Ross county, where he died. He was twice married, and by the two wives was the father of twenty children. Thomas Athey, a native of Loudoun years, and was a minister in the Methodist Episcopal church ; thence he removed to Chillieothe, Ohio, and married Diana Abrams, a daughter of Judge Henry Adams, and, about 1801-02 removed to Fairfield county; then, in the fall of 1818, settled in Range township, Madison county. He later became a resident of Union township, one and a
Passage source: History of Madison County, Ohio : Its People, Industries and Institution with Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families, published 1915.
Since most of the streams of the township were ill adapted to the supplying of water power for the operation of mills, there is very little to be said on the subject of early mills in Range township. There were many portable and temporary mills in the early days, but it is quite impossible to obtain, at this late date, any trace or record of them. At quite an early date, probably about 1835, William Holt erected a steam-mill in Midway - now called Sedalia - on the Armstrong lot,' which was perhaps the first steam-mill in the county. This mill was run a few years and then removed to Newport, and there run several years.
Passage source: History of Madison County, Ohio : Its People, Industries and Institution with Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families, published 1915.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 18 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 18 specimens collected within 10 miles of Midway between 1925 and 1969: 12 Animalia, 6 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Charles O. Wingo Jr., Collector(s): Cluff E. Hopla, David G. Furth and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.
| Image | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Medicago lupulina L. | 1961 | Charles O. Wingo Jr. | Route 323, 4 miles west of Mount Sterling |
 | Medicago sativa L. | 1961 | Charles O. Wingo Jr. | Roadside, dry bank 4 miles west of Mt. Sterling, Route 232, Madison County, Ohio. |
 | Trifolium hybridum L. | 1961 | Charles O. Wingo Jr. | Dry roadside bank, 4 miles west of Mt. Sterling, route 323, Madison County, Ohio. |
| Ichneumonidae | 1925 | Pallister, J. C. (John C.) | Madison Co., OH | |
 | Erimyzon oblongus claviformis (Girard, 1856) | 1927 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Franks, R. W. (Roscoe W.) | Walnut Run, north Paint township, ~3.3 miles SW of London OH, Paint township |
 | Notropis heterolepis Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1893 | 1927 | Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Franks, R. W. (Roscoe W.) | Walnut Run, north Paint township, ~3.3 miles SW of London OH, Paint township |
 | Necturus maculosus maculosus (Rafinesque, 1818) | 1929 | Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.) | Oak Run, Madison Co., Ohio |
 | Orconectes rusticus (Girard, 1852) | 1938 | R. Rhoades | Paint Creek, Paint Township |
 | Pulex irritans Linnaeus, 1758 | 1942 | Collector(s): Cluff E. Hopla | South Solon |
 | Satyrium caryaevorus (McDunnough, 1942) | 1955 | Homer F. Price | Dehn's Swamp, Florence Township |
| Vicia villosa Roth | 1961 | Charles O. Wingo Jr. | Roadside 4 miles west of Mount Sterling. | |
 | Osmia georgica Cresson, 1878 | 1968 | David G. Furth | Dehn's Swamp, Florence Township |
All 18 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms near this place
8 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Midway in 8 storm reports between 1995 and 2015: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Midway | $30,000 | A barn was destroyed along Yankee-Chenoweth Road. A house on the property sustained minor siding damage as well.| |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Midway | $3,000 | Several large trees downed. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Midway | $2,000 | A couple of power poles were knocked down. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Midway | $2,000 | Two pine trees were snapped along with numerous limbs down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Midway | $2,000 | Trees and large tree limbs were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| January 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Midway | $1,000 | A tree was downed near Route 323 due to thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2000 | Hail | Midway | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Midway | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Range | 2.8 miles | 10 | |
| Bethel | 4.5 miles | 10 | |
| Chenoweth | 6.4 miles | 10 | |
| Newport | 7.0 miles | 11 | |
| South Solon | 7.2 miles | 12 | |
| Florence | 8.7 miles | 12 | |
| Chrisman | 8.8 miles | 11 | |
| Nioga (historical) | 9.1 miles | 11 |
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 Q2256692 | 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 1057845. 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.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
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.