Midway Texas Map

About Midway, Texas

Midway is a locality in Howard County, Texas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 173. The population density is 42.1 people per km². Midway is located at 31.0251°N, 95.7565°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Midway is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 75644, 76502, 75754.

Midway sits upon the sun-bleached expanse of the Texas plains, where the horizon stretches thin and flat under a sky that seems to hold more weight than the earth below. It lies 6.5 miles east-northeast of Big Spring, TX (from Big Spring, TX: bearing 75°T), and is situated 30.6 miles west-southwest of Colorado City. The land here is defined by a hard, persistent light that turns the grasses to shades of pale straw and iron-gray, broken only by the occasional scrub and the deep, jagged scars of Red Draw that cut through the terrain two miles from the center. Beyond these local depressions, the landscape remains vast and unshielded, a place where the wind carries the dry scent of dust and the distant, cooling suggestion of the Edwards Plateau, though that mountain range remains a faint, blue memory far removed from the immediate, silent heat. To the north, the water of Refinery Lake collects in the stillness of the basin, mirroring the stark passage of clouds, while the intermittent path of Beals Creek carves a shallow, winding route through the dirt nearby.

Midway retains the quiet, utilitarian character of a place built on the steady extraction of resources and the slow, deliberate work of the oil patch. Life here is measured by the rhythmic pump of jacks and the migration of light across the open fields, a pace that feels disconnected from the urgency of the wider world. The local economy persists through the resilience of those who tend the land and service the infrastructure that anchors the region to the energy industry. Not far from the main roads, the Moss Creek Lake area offers a brief reprieve from the industrial hum, providing a sanctuary where the earth feels slightly less burdened by the reach of machinery. Midway exists as a point of endurance on the map, a settlement where the grit of the plains and the history of the cattle trails have settled into a singular, unvarnished way of being, marked by the simple, enduring fact of its presence in the open country.

About This Midway Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Midway, Texas. Coordinates: 31.02512, -95.7565. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Midway includes the ZIP code (75644, 76502, 75754), telephone area code (903), county seat of Howard County (Big Spring), and school district assignment (Madisonville Consolidated Independent School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.