Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Most of Midway was built recently: 2% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1992. Its Register listing is the Morrison Plantation Smokehouse. Below: maps from 1985 on.
The Midway post office opened in 1850, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Carroll (1910), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Midway’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Midway yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Midway is a town in Hot Spring County, Arkansas, United States. Midway was incorporated on May 3, 2000, and had a population of 377 at the 2020 census.
Its first post office opened in 1850. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 389 to 377 (-3%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Midway.
1985Malvern sheet · 1:100,000U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Midway.
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Nobody well known was born in Midway itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Midway had its own post office from 1850 to 1878. Another post office, Carroll, opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
The Midway post office opened in 1850, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
One place: the Morrison Plantation Smokehouse (listed 1977).
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
From the National Register of Historic Places (1), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
