BlockBefore

Midway, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Midway census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75852. The Survey maps it on the Elwood quadrangle. 173 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 249 feet above sea level.

Midway within Madison County

Population over time

3 figures

Midway fell from 288 to 173 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2000288
2010228-60 (-21%)
2020173-55 (-24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

25 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Midway between 1996 and 2017, burning about 199 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural1
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresLivingston AreaLIVINGSTON - 840
26 September 2002Debris and open burning40 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONROE - 158
18 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service4039
18 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE # 26
15 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 3060
2 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined75 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE #19
15 August 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceALASKA LANE
4 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGUN RANGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

25 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Midway in 25 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 9 hail, 8 thunderstorm wind, 5 flash flood, 2 tornado. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
December 2002Tornado (F1)Midway2 hurt, $55,000Tornado touched down near the Trinity River in eastern Madison County and overturned a mobile home. Two injuries were reported. Nearby buildings were also damaged by the tornado.
May 2016Flash FloodMidway$100,000Numerous roads were flooded and impassable around Madisonville. SH 21 from Madisonville to FM 2548, Old Spanish Trail between I-45 and US 190, and US 190 from Madisonville to Bedias were all under water, impassable and therefore closed.
November 1996Thunderstorm WindMidway$30,000no account filed
August 1998Thunderstorm WindMidway$15,000Tin roof blown off barn along CR 208 along with numerous trees down. Trees down along CR 209 (one on a house).
February 1999HailMidway$15,000no account filed
May 2003HailMidway$14,000Baseball size hail.
November 2004HailMidway$10,000no account filed
October 1997HailMidway$10,000no account filed
September 2009HailMidway$8,000A severe thunderstorm produced half dollar size hail approximately 2 miles south of Highway 21.
December 2018Thunderstorm WindMidway$5,000Multiple reports of trees down across parts of Madison County including Highway 21 West near Midway.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindMidway$5,000Tree down on Malone Road.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindMidway$5,000Trees blown down
September 2009Thunderstorm WindMidway$4,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees on Highway 21 between Midway and the Trinity River.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindMidway$3,000Power lines were felled by high winds.
March 2018LightningMidway$2,000A lightning strike damaged a barn.
April 2026HailMidway-A trained storm spotter reported 1 in hail southwest of Midway.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindMidway-Trees were downed near Midway.
April 2024Flash FloodMidway-Flash flooding along CR 247 near Midway resulted in the roadway becoming impassable.
May 2024Flash FloodMidway-FM 2548 between Midway and Antioch was made impassable due to flooding. Damage totals include flooding over the month period.
April 2023HailMidway-Half dollar sized hail was observed.
March 2018HailMidway-Quarter sized hail was reported near Midway.
October 2018Flash FloodMidway-There were flooded roadways that were impassable near Burns Road and SH 21.
August 2017Flash FloodMidway-Sections of FM 247 south of Midway between FM 1428 and FM 2989 were closed due to flooding.||There was major lowland flooding along Bedias Creek that caused some roads to become inaccessible.
May 2005Tornado (F0)Midway-Tornado at Highway 21 East or 10 miles east of I-45; no damage.
February 2008HailMidway-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
Antioch3.5 miles11
Old Elwood4.2 miles10
Elwood4.6 miles10
Connor5.4 miles10
Dingerville6.1 miles10
Jenkins6.7 miles10
Madisonville10.0 miles11
Cross Roads10.1 miles9

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 MidwayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q981478The 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 1362795. 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.