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.
Population over time
3 figuresMidway 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 288 | |
| 2010 | 228 | -60 (-21%) |
| 2020 | 173 | -55 (-24%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Elwood quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Palestine quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Crockett quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
25 since 1996Regional 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 burning | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Livingston Area | LIVINGSTON - 840 |
| 26 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CONROE - 158 |
| 18 September 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 4039 |
| 18 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE # 26 |
| 15 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FM 3060 |
| 2 August 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 75 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE #19 |
| 15 August 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ALASKA LANE |
| 4 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GUN RANGE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
25 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2002 | Tornado (F1) | Midway | 2 hurt, $55,000 | Tornado 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 2016 | Flash Flood | Midway | $100,000 | Numerous 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 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Midway | $30,000 | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Midway | $15,000 | Tin roof blown off barn along CR 208 along with numerous trees down. Trees down along CR 209 (one on a house). |
| February 1999 | Hail | Midway | $15,000 | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Midway | $14,000 | Baseball size hail. |
| November 2004 | Hail | Midway | $10,000 | no account filed |
| October 1997 | Hail | Midway | $10,000 | no account filed |
| September 2009 | Hail | Midway | $8,000 | A severe thunderstorm produced half dollar size hail approximately 2 miles south of Highway 21. |
| December 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Midway | $5,000 | Multiple reports of trees down across parts of Madison County including Highway 21 West near Midway. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Midway | $5,000 | Tree down on Malone Road. |
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Midway | $5,000 | Trees blown down |
| September 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Midway | $4,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed trees on Highway 21 between Midway and the Trinity River. |
| May 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Midway | $3,000 | Power lines were felled by high winds. |
| March 2018 | Lightning | Midway | $2,000 | A lightning strike damaged a barn. |
| April 2026 | Hail | Midway | - | A trained storm spotter reported 1 in hail southwest of Midway. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Midway | - | Trees were downed near Midway. |
| April 2024 | Flash Flood | Midway | - | Flash flooding along CR 247 near Midway resulted in the roadway becoming impassable. |
| May 2024 | Flash Flood | Midway | - | FM 2548 between Midway and Antioch was made impassable due to flooding. Damage totals include flooding over the month period. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Midway | - | Half dollar sized hail was observed. |
| March 2018 | Hail | Midway | - | Quarter sized hail was reported near Midway. |
| October 2018 | Flash Flood | Midway | - | There were flooded roadways that were impassable near Burns Road and SH 21. |
| August 2017 | Flash Flood | Midway | - | 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 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Midway | - | Tornado at Highway 21 East or 10 miles east of I-45; no damage. |
| February 2008 | Hail | Midway | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Antioch | 3.5 miles | 11 | |
| Old Elwood | 4.2 miles | 10 | |
| Elwood | 4.6 miles | 10 | |
| Connor | 5.4 miles | 10 | |
| Dingerville | 6.1 miles | 10 | |
| Jenkins | 6.7 miles | 10 | |
| Madisonville | 10.0 miles | 11 | |
| Cross Roads | 10.1 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.
| Wikipedia article on Midway | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q981478 | 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 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.




