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Midway, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Portland-Gregory census division. It lies in ZIP code area 78390. The Survey maps it on the Gregory quadrangle.

Midway within San Patricio County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

15 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Midway between 2009 and 2020, burning about 32 acres in total. None 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/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning3

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
18 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceINGLESIDE BRUSH
18 July 2011Equipment and vehicle use10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGARZA
4 May 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service181 AT CITY LIMIT
28 May 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS FIRE
2 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS/BRUSH FIRE
6 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGREGORY FIRE
5 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHWY 77 & 188
4 April 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCTY RD. 3284

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Patricio County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Midway: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Fosboro Phosphate PlantPhosphorus-PhosphatesProducer
Haas Trucking Company OperationSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in San Patricio County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Midway in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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
March 2016Thunderstorm WindMidway$15,000A large section of metal roofing on building was peeled away along Highway 181.
September 2015Thunderstorm WindMidway$10,000Six power poles were blown down along County Road 3567 near Palm Memorial Garden cemetery.
March 2016Thunderstorm WindMidway$5,000Four telephone poles were snapped near the base on Midway Road.
July 2021Heavy RainMidway-Damage estimates due to sorghum losses in the county were at 32.449 million dollars across the county due to heavy rainfall. A 35 percent loss occurred with the sorghum crop.
July 2008Tornado (EF0)Midway-This tornado touched down in an open cotton field in the outer rainbands of Hurricane Dolly. No damage was reported. This tornado moved northeast to southwest.

Every storm recorded in San Patricio 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
Tierra Buena Colonia2.8 miles11
Algodon Colonia2.9 miles11
Second Roosevelt Colonia3.0 miles11
Roosevelt Colonia3.1 miles11
Taft3.1 miles11
Third Hidalgo Colonia3.2 miles11
Fourth Hidalgo Colonia3.4 miles11
Fifth Hidalgo Colonia3.6 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1378670. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.