Midway, Texas

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Lamesa Southeast census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79331. The Survey maps it on the Key quadrangle.

Midway within Dawson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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 Big Spring quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Big Spring quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Key quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Lamesa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Midway between 2006 and 2012, burning about 80 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Natural	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
12 August 2012	Natural	50 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	CANON RANCH
18 January 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dawson County

Storms near this place

3 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Midway in 3 storm reports between 2004 and 2025: 2 hail, 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
May 2025	Flash Flood	Midway	-	A report was received from the public via MPING that flash flooding of streets/roads was occurring between Lamesa and Ackerly. The time of occurrence is estimated from radar. No damage was reported.
July 2004	Hail	Midway	-	For the second consecutive day, damaging hail destroyed cotton crops in Dawson County. An isolated supercell thunderstorm developed over eastern Dawson County during the late afternoon of the 5th. This storm produced large hail that destroyed cotton crops as it propagated south across southeastern Dawson and eastern Martin Counties. The initial report of large hail was received in the community of Midway where nickel size stones began to fall around 17:30 CST. Golfball size hail was later reported along U.S. Highway 87 between Midway and Sparenburg. Cotton farmers along Farm to Market Road 828 reported complete crop losses near Sparenburg.
June 2017	Hail	Midway	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dawson 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
Key	3.0 miles	8
Fivemile	6.7 miles	8
Los Ybanez	7.3 miles	8
Sparenberg	7.6 miles	8
Tenmile	9.2 miles	8
Lamesa	9.4 miles	8
Hancock	10.0 miles	8
Arvana	10.9 miles	8

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.

Wikipedia article on Midway	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q128792221	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 1378675. 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.