Midway Crossing, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Harrold-Oklaunion census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76360. It stands on Lillus Creek. The Survey maps it on the Grayback quadrangle.

Midway Crossing within Wilbarger County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1954 USGS Wichita Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Wichita Falls quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Grayback quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Lake Kemp quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

7 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Midway Crossing between 2008 and 2014, burning about 370 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
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Debris and open burning	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
11 July 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	25 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	PASTURE
29 June 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	WAGGONER MARE PATURE
29 May 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ROCK CREEK OIL FIELD
18 April 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRAYBACK FIRE
13 April 2014	Power generation/transmission/distribution	200 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	ANTELOPE PASTURE
3 January 2008	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
19 January 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	60 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wilbarger 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Hoot and Holler Crossing	1.6 miles	7
Grayback	2.7 miles	7
Rock Crossing	3.5 miles	7
Lockett	12.0 miles	10
Oklaunion	12.1 miles	9
Parsley Hill	12.1 miles	10
Harrold	12.5 miles	11
Vernon	13.5 miles	9

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 Q122556748

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 1380195. 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.