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Midway, Texas

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the East Crockett census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76943. The Survey maps it on the Double Mill Draw NW quadrangle.

Midway within Crockett County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

9 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Midway between 2009 and 2020, burning about 30,888 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
14 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined220 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMIDWAY LANE
6 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use6,983 acresTexas A & M Forest Service190 EAST
1 August 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOZONA
22 July 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution625 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCINCO TERRY
5 June 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJUST EAST MIDWAY LANE
12 May 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution87 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSINGLETERRY 1
31 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service190 WEST
27 February 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined22,958 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWILLIAMS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crockett 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
Ozona14.0 miles7
Crockett Heights14.5 miles7
Four Corner Windmill28.9 miles7
Fort Lancaster33.0 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380190. 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.