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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Midway, Ohio

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Bedford Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45769. It stands on Peach Fork. The Survey maps it on the Pomeroy quadrangle.

Midway within Meigs County

Then and now

1907 to 1992

The same ground, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Midway, surveyed 1992
Topographic sheet of Midway, surveyed 1907

Compare 1907 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 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 nearby

30 since 2009

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Midway between 2009 and 2020, burning about 42 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
Debris and open burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1

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
27 September 2019Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15268
27 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15260
9 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources1443
27 April 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources8226
17 April 2019Debris and open burning3.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources15207
13 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resources4285
10 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meigs County

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 291 shown

Museums hold 291 specimens collected within 10 miles of Midway between 1831 and 1973: 254 Animalia, 34 Plantae, 3 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by C. H. Jones, Carroll, G., Charles M. Roberts 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 SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Ustilago sorghi (Ehrenb. ex Link) Pass.Ustilago sorghi (Ehrenb. ex Link) Pass.1899Kellerman, W. A.FLORA OF OHIO
Specimen of Hirneola auricula-judae (Bull.) Berk.Hirneola auricula-judae (Bull.) Berk.1940Carroll, G.Big Spruce Creek
Specimen of Odontostephana obliqua (Jacq.) AlexanderOdontostephana obliqua (Jacq.) Alexander1963William G. Gambill Jr.
A photograph of the species Myosotis laxa, not of this specimenMyosotis laxa Lehm.1831C. H. JonesOrange Twp.
A photograph of the species Asplenium trichomanes, not of this specimenAsplenium trichomanes L.1840Clark, Joseph; Riddell, John LeonardMeigs County, Ohio
A photograph of the species Jungermannia sullivantii, not of this specimenJungermannia sullivantii Austin1844W. S. SullivantIn woods pasture pond 30 rods south of my [W.S. Sullivant's] garden
A photograph of the species Trichostrongylus Looss, not of this specimenTrichostrongylus Looss, 19051906E. StevensonClifton
A photograph of the species Gymnosporangium globosum, not of this specimenGymnosporangium globosum (Farl.) Farl.1916Nixon, E. L.Pomeroy
A photograph of the species Noturus eleutherus, not of this specimenNoturus eleutherus Jordan, 18771927Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Shade River, at TR 359/Sorden Rd, 2 miles southeast of Chester OH, Chester township
A photograph of the species Noturus miurus, not of this specimenNoturus miurus Jordan, 18771927Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Shade River, within Chester township, near Chester, Chester township
A photograph of the species Noturus stigmosus, not of this specimenNoturus stigmosus Taylor, 19691927Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)Shade River, within Chester township, near Chester, Chester township
A photograph of the species Campostoma anomalum, not of this specimenCampostoma anomalum anomalum1929MB Trautman & asst.Shade River, trib of Ohio River, at Chester, center of Chester county

All 291 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

4 since 2018

The National Weather Service names Midway in 4 storm reports between 2018 and 2022: 2 flood, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2021Thunderstorm WindMidway$5,000Several trees were blown down on Kingsbury Road.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindMidway$2,000Several trees and power lines were downed and damaged in local towns.
January 2019FloodMidway$2,000The Shade River flooded near Chester, closing the Sugar Run Creek bridge.||The river gage near Chester showed the river rose above its 17 foot bankfull level mid afternoon on the 24th. It crested at 17.6 feet late that evening and returned to its banks pre-dawn on the 25th.
February 2018FloodMidway$1,000Flooding along the West Branch of the Shade River closed a section of State Route 681 between Routes 33 and 684.

Every storm recorded in Meigs 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
Kingsbury0.8 miles14
Hemlock Grove1.2 miles14
Darwin1.8 miles13
Burlingham3.1 miles13
Bunker Hill (historical)3.2 miles14
Flora3.3 miles13
Bucks Mill3.5 miles13
Flatwoods4.0 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1062895. 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.

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.