Midway, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Ben Wheeler-Edom census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75754. The Survey maps it on the Carroll quadrangle.

Midway within Van Zandt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1948 USGS Brownsboro quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Brownsboro quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1984 USGS Carroll quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Tyler quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

134 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 134 fires within 5 miles of Midway between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,468 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 12 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	84
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Arson/incendiarism	12
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Natural	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
7 September 1998	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
5 September 1995	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
4 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	FM 279
27 September 2004	Debris and open burning	18 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 145
24 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	VZCR 4929
23 September 2002	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 217
22 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
21 September 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	HENDERSON - 283

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Van Zandt 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
Edom	3.0 miles	13
Redland	3.5 miles	15
Primrose	3.6 miles	13
Ben Wheeler	8.4 miles	13
Mars	9.1 miles	13
Owlett Green	9.2 miles	14
Van	9.9 miles	14
Holly Springs	11.8 miles	13

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 Q116055743	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 2034663. 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.