Midway, Washington

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Clallam Bay-Neah Bay census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98357. It stands on Middle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cape Flattery quadrangle.

Midway within Clallam County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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 Cape Flattery quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Cape Flattery quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Cape Flattery quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1963 USGS Cape Flattery quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Cape Flattery quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Cape Flattery quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

1 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Midway in 2006, burning under an acre 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/undetermined	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
30 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clallam County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Midway: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clallam 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
Classet	0.3 miles	8
Neah Bay	3.0 miles	8
Waatch	3.0 miles	8
Tsoo-Yess	5.9 miles	8
Ozette	16.3 miles	12
Old Royal	18.5 miles	10
Bayview Recreational Vehicle Park	21.2 miles	10
Sekiu	21.6 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1511153. 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.