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Midway, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Shiner census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77995. The Survey maps it on the Yoakum quadrangle.

Midway within Lavaca County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

41 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Midway between 2005 and 2017, burning about 414 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
4 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceBROWN FIRE
28 September 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFLORES FIRE
27 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDOUBLE P
22 September 2011Natural5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCOOK PLACE
2 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 95 S
2 August 2009Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFLORES
11 August 2009Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceADKINS FIRE
1 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceKREMLING FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lavaca County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Midway in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2019Thunderstorm WindMidway$2,000A thunderstorm produced wind gusts estimated at 70 mph that blew down trees on Hwy 95 between Shiner and Yoakum.

Every storm recorded in Lavaca 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
Adel1.0 miles9
Mount Olive4.3 miles9
Shiner4.4 miles9
Sweet Home5.6 miles9
Wied8.0 miles9
Mont9.0 miles9
Worthing9.0 miles9
Koerth10.1 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380189. 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.