Midway, Elkhart County, Indiana

Last updated February 14, 2025

It is proposed that this article be deleted because of the following concern:

Completely undocumented artifact of an unreliable USGS gazetteer and people describing where Dunlap, Indiana is.
There is no Midway in Elkhart in 19th century gazetteers, such as the 1859 Shipper's Guide, the 1854 Thomas/Baldwin, the 1880/1902 Lippincott's, the 1895 Longman's, or de Colange's National Gazetteer.
The Weaver History has no such place at all, in Concord Township or otherwise. Its only "midway" is the "county asylum, midway between Goshen and Elkhart". Where is that midway point? Page 83 says "Dunlaps". Yes, that's Dunlap.
The Muncie History comes up with nothing.
The Chapman History comes up with nothing, too.
The Deahl History comes up with nothing, too.
Baker's 1995 book has only Midway, Spencer County, Indiana (and Colfax in Clinton) as also have de Colange, Thomas/Baldwin, and the 1880 Lippincott's.
Those tornadoes? Thornton's 2022 Arcadia Publishing book explains. It's a trailer court, not a town at all, and it is south of Dunlap. Contemporary 1960s accounts say Dunlap, too. The name Midway Trailer Court does give away that it's not a town.
Midway Airport is not a "community". Not unless you think that aeroplanes are humans. It's a bloody airport , in Dunlap.
This is a name on USGS maps and thus in the GNIS, only.
It is unverifiable what it even was supposed to be. (proposed by Uncle G )

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Expired [[WP:PROD|prod]], concern was: Completely undocumented artifact of an unreliable USGS gazetteer and people describing where Dunlap, Indiana is.

There is no Midway in Elkhart in 19th century gazetteers, such as the 1859 Shipper's Guide, the 1854 Thomas/Baldwin, the 1880/1902 Lippincott's, the 1895 Longman's, or de Colange's National Gazetteer.
The Weaver History has no such place at all, in Concord Township or otherwise. Its only "midway" is the "county asylum, midway between Goshen and Elkhart". Where is that midway point? Page 83 says "Dunlaps". Yes, that's Dunlap.
The Muncie History comes up with nothing.
The Chapman History comes up with nothing, too.
The Deahl History comes up with nothing, too.
Baker's 1995 book has only Midway, Spencer County, Indiana (and Colfax in Clinton) as also have de Colange, Thomas/Baldwin, and the 1880 Lippincott's.
Those tornadoes? Thornton's 2022 Arcadia Publishing book explains. It's a trailer court, not a town at all, and it is south of Dunlap. Contemporary 1960s accounts say Dunlap, too. The name Midway Trailer Court does give away that it's not a town.
Midway Airport is not a "community". Not unless you think that aeroplanes are humans. It's a bloody airport , in Dunlap.

This is a name on USGS maps and thus in the GNIS, only.

It is unverifiable what it even was supposed to be.

Nominator: Please consider notifying the author/project:

{{ subst:proposed deletion notify |Midway, Elkhart County, Indiana|concern=Completely undocumented artifact of [[Project:Reliability of GNIS data|an unreliable USGS gazetteer]] and people describing where [[Dunlap, Indiana]] is. * There is no Midway in Elkhart in 19th century gazetteers, such as the 1859 ''Shipper's Guide'', the 1854 Thomas/Baldwin, the 1880/1902 ''Lippincott's'', the 1895 Longman's, or de Colange's ''National Gazetteer''. * The Weaver ''History'' has no such place at all, in Concord Township or otherwise.  Its only "midway" is the "county asylum, midway between Goshen and Elkhart".  Where is that midway point?  Page 83 says "Dunlaps".  Yes, that's [[Dunlap, Indiana|Dunlap]]. * The Muncie ''History'' comes up with nothing. * The Chapman ''History'' comes up with nothing, too. * The Deahl ''History'' comes up with nothing, too. * Baker's 1995 book has only [[Midway, Spencer County, Indiana|Midway, '''Spencer''' County, Indiana]] (and [[Colfax, Indiana|Colfax]] in Clinton) as also have de Colange, Thomas/Baldwin, and the 1880 ''Lippincott'''s. * Those tornadoes?  Thornton's 2022 Arcadia Publishing book explains.  It's a [[trailer park|trailer court]], not a town at all, and it is south of [[Dunlap, Indiana|Dunlap]].  Contemporary 1960s accounts say [[Dunlap, Indiana|Dunlap]], too.  The name Midway Trailer Court does give away that it's not a town. * Midway Airport is not a "community".  Not unless you think that aeroplanes are humans.  <span class="plainlinks" >[https://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16066coll63/id/8249 It's a bloody airport]</span>, in [[Dunlap, Indiana|Dunlap]]. This is a name on USGS maps and thus in the GNIS, only. It is unverifiable what it even was supposed to be.}} ~~~~

Midway, Elkhart County, Indiana
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 41°37′07″N85°53′26″W / 41.61861°N 85.89056°W / 41.61861; -85.89056
Country	United States
State	Indiana
County	Elkhart
Township	Concord
Elevation ^[1]	784 ft (239 m)
ZIP code	46528
FIPS code	18-49122^[2]
GNIS feature ID	439125^[1]

Midway is an unincorporated community in Concord Township, Elkhart County, Indiana.

During the 1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak on April 11, 1965, an F4 tornado struck the town, mainly the Midway Trailer Court, killing ten, this tornado also struck the city of Goshen, Indiana and other communities in Elkhart County, killing 31 in total.

References

1 2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Midway, Elkhart County, Indiana
↑ "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau . Retrieved January 31, 2008.

v t e Municipalities and communities of Elkhart County, Indiana, United States
County seat: Goshen
Cities	Elkhart Goshen Nappanee‡	Map of Indiana highlighting Elkhart County
Towns	Bristol Middlebury Millersburg Wakarusa
Townships	Baugo Benton Cleveland Clinton Concord Elkhart Harrison Jackson Jefferson Locke Middlebury Olive Osolo Union Washington York
CDPs	Benton Dunlap New Paris Simonton Lake Vistula
Other communities	Bainter Town Bonneyville Mills Foraker Gravelton‡ Jamestown Locke Midway Southwest Waterford Mills
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties
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