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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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 Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fostoria quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Beaumont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Conroe quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1997 USGS Fostoria quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
141 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 107 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 75 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CONROE - 392 |
| 4 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 26 September 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CONROE - 160 |
| 26 September 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 8.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CONROE - 161 |
| 22 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | BRUSH GRASS FIRE |
| 22 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 20 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | BRUSH GRASS FIRE |
| 20 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 18 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CONROE - 107 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2015Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2015 | Flash Flood | Midline | - | High rainfall caused flooding around the Splendora area. There was two feet of water on Kingport Road northeast of town. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Splendora | 1.9 miles | 13 | |
| Lake Spendora | 2.6 miles | 13 | |
| Forest Estates | 2.7 miles | 13 | |
| Hill and Dale Terrace | 3.2 miles | 13 | |
| Deerbrook | 3.4 miles | 13 | |
| Patton Village | 4.7 miles | 13 | |
| Fostoria | 4.8 miles | 13 | |
| Roman Forest | 5.5 miles | 13 |
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 Q122591936 | 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 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.





