Midway, Texas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Winona census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75792. The Survey maps it on the Starrville quadrangle. It stands 423 feet above sea level.

Midway within Smith County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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.

1938 USGS Winona quadrangle1:48000
1943 USGS Winona quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1966 USGS Starrville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

264 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 264 fires within 5 miles of Midway between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,774 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 10 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 burning	131
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	80
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Natural	12
Arson/incendiarism	10
Smoking	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
9 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	SMITH 15:15
8 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
5 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	18373 CR 3132
4 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
30 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 118
29 September 2006	Debris and open burning	35 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 575
29 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
27 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	GRASS FIRE WINONA I-20

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Smith 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Starrville	0.7 miles	15
Waters Bluff	2.3 miles	13
Winona	3.6 miles	15
Owentown	5.5 miles	15
Browning	6.1 miles	15
Douglas	8.5 miles	16
Sand Flat	9.5 miles	15
Shady Grove	9.7 miles	15

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 Q22076537	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 1378674. 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.