Middle Water, Texas
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Dalhart census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79022. The Survey maps it on the Middle Water quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 printed 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.
- 1954 USGS Tucumcari quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Tucumcari quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Middle Water quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Hartley quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
17 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Middle Water between 2006 and 2018, burning about 478 acres in total. 9 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2007 | Natural | 78 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 28 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 2 WEST OF CO RD L ON HWY 54 |
| 18 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 20 WEST HWY 54 |
| 7 August 2007 | Natural | 11 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 29 August 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWY 54 WEST |
| 25 August 2009 | Natural | 163 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | TAYLOR RANCH |
| 23 August 2010 | Natural | 7.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | COUNTY ROAD L |
| 11 August 2007 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Middle Water in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 9 hail, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2024 | Hail | Middle Water | $3,000 | Hail of tennis ball size broke the windows out of a work truck. |
| March 2019 | Hail | Middle Water | - | Trained spotter reported quarter size hail with thunderstorm. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Middle Water | - | From the KVII school net site at Olson Ranch. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Middle Water | - | Storm spotter found hail on us HWY 54 about 20 miles SW of Dalhart. |
| April 2016 | Hail | Middle Water | - | Quarter size hail fell 12 miles northeast of Romero. |
| May 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Middle Water | - | Two to four inch tree limbs were reported broken off. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Middle Water | - | no account filed |
| April 2018 | Hail | Middle Water | - | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Hail | Middle Water | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Middle Water | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Middle Water | - | 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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1362767. 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.
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.



