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Midway, Utah

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Heber City West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84049. It lies near Memorial Hill. The Survey maps it on the Heber City quadrangle. 6,003 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,584 feet above sea level.

Midway within Wasatch County

On record in Midway

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 12 of 15 shown

Every listing in Wasatch County

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Midway grew from 3,845 to 6,003 between 2010 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
20103,845
20206,003+2,158 (+56%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 26 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Watkins-Coleman House, 5 East Main Street, Midway, Wasatch County, UT
Watkins-Coleman House, 5 East Main Street, Midway, Wasatch County, UT
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

187 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 187 fires within 5 miles of Midway between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,309 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined57
Debris and open burning41
Equipment and vehicle use22
Fireworks16
Natural15
Recreation and ceremony7
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Arson/incendiarism6
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking4
Other causes1

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
8 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSWEAT
7 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHEBER ASSIST 2
6 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSMITH FIRE
6 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsDEER CREEK RAINBOW BAY
30 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMIDWAY 6TH SO.
29 September 2002Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsLITTLE SPOT
29 September 2001Naturalunder an acreUintah and Ouray AgencyBWALLOW1
24 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHEBER CREEPER 6

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wasatch County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Midway: 8 producers, 5 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Zinc, Lead. 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
Limestone Borrow Pit.Limestone, GeneralPast ProducerLimestone
Midway Hot PotGeothermalUnknown
Midway Tufa QuarriesLimestone, High CalciumPast ProducerCalcite
Park Heber TunnelLead, Zinc, Silver, Gold, CopperPast Producer
Phosphate Hill ProspectPhosphorus-PhosphatesOccurrenceCollophane
Thaynes MineZinc, LeadProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite
Big Hollow Crushed Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerQuartzite
Charleston Crushed Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerLimestone, Quartzite
Heber City Borrow Pit. #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Heber City Borrow Pit. #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Wasatch County

Storms near this place

3 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Midway in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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
July 2023Thunderstorm WindMidway$5,000Multiple trees were downed in Midway.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindMidway$1,000MPING relayed damage report of 1-inch tree limbs broken and shingles blown off in Midway.
September 2013Funnel CloudMidway-A rope funnel cloud was spotted and photographed near Midway, Utah. The time listed is approximate.

Every storm recorded in Wasatch 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
Mountain Spa1.0 miles26
Mound City1.3 miles26
Interlaken2.0 miles26
Charleston3.2 miles21
Heber City3.3 miles26
Daniel4.3 miles21
Jordanelle6.2 miles26
Center Creek6.6 miles22

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 Q485211The 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 1430310. 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.