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Midline, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Southeast Montgomery census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77372. It stands on Shady Run. The Survey maps it on the Fostoria quadrangle.

Midline within Montgomery County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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.

Fires near this place

141 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Midline between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,085 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 11 were 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 burning107
Arson/incendiarism11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1
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
5 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined75 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 392
4 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2002Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 160
26 September 2002Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 161
22 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH GRASS FIRE
22 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
20 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceBRUSH GRASS FIRE
20 September 2005Debris and open burning18 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 107

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Midline in 1 storm report in 2015: 1 flash flood. 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 2015Flash FloodMidline-High rainfall caused flooding around the Splendora area. There was two feet of water on Kingport Road northeast of town.

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
Splendora1.9 miles13
Lake Spendora2.6 miles13
Forest Estates2.7 miles13
Hill and Dale Terrace3.2 miles13
Deerbrook3.4 miles13
Patton Village4.7 miles13
Fostoria4.8 miles13
Roman Forest5.5 miles13

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.

Wikidata item Q122591936The 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 1381228. 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.