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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 Bonham census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75418. The Survey maps it on the Bonham quadrangle.

Midway within Fannin County

On record in Midway

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

182 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 182 fires within 5 miles of Midway between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,206 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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 burning84
Equipment and vehicle use43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined37
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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
8 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use9.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
8 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2007Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
6 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
4 September 2009Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceJOHN HILL
28 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
26 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use25 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceWHEAT FIRE
25 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE AT SALE BARN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fannin 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
Bonham2.3 miles6
Rogers2.4 miles6
Ector2.8 miles7
Edhube3.0 miles6
Nunnelee3.2 miles6
English4.8 miles6
White Shed5.2 miles6
Ely5.8 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1362794. 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.