Midas is an unincorporated community located in Floyd County, Kentucky. It is located around the intersection of Midas Road and Kentucky Route 550, North of Hueysville (separated by Midas Tunnel) and West of Eastern. Not much remains except some scattered residences and Midas Road and the Midas Tunnel. CSX E&BV Subdivision passes through Midas and crosses Midas Road after exiting the tunnel.
Midas, Kentucky | |
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 Tunnel at Midas, KY | |
  Midas Location within the state of Kentucky  Midas Midas (the United States) | |
| Coordinates: 37°30′44″N 82°50′06″W / 37.51222°N 82.83500°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Kentucky |
| County | Floyd |
| Elevation | 709 ft (216 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-05:00 (Eastern (EST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-04:00 (EDT) |
| ZIP code | 41640 |
| GNIS feature ID | 508596[1] |
Civil War history
editOn January 10, 1862, the Battle of Middle Creek was fought near Prestonburg. Brig. Gen. Humphrey Marshall and his Confederate troops retreated using the Left Fork of Middle Creek and went south and camped near Midas at the Joseph Gearheart Farm, located midway between Midas and Hueysville.[2] After staying for a week, Humphrey and his troops traveled farther up Beaver Creek before retreating out of Kentucky and into Virginia.[3]
Later history
editA 1918 survey noted that the Midas Oil & Gas Company was one of "eighteen or twenty oil and gas operating concerns in Floyd County, Kentucky".[4] By 1927, it was reported that a 9 million cubic foot gas facility was being offered for sale in "Midas, Floyd County, Kentucky, on branch of Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co.",[5] and in 1937, it was reported that the Inland Gas Corporation had "a sixteen-inch line with a capacity of about thirty-five million cubic feet per day extending from Midas on Right Beaver Creek northwardly" through Floyd County and several neighboring counties.[6] In 1970, the Inland Gas Company sought permission and approval from the Federal Power Commission to abandon its Midas Compressor Station in Floyd County.[7]
References
edit- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Midas, Kentucky
- ^ History-President Lincoln-Middle Creek https://www.middlecreek.org/history/
- ^ Old 5th Kentucky Mounted Infantry Regiment October 1861 to October 1862-The Civil War Experiences of the Barkers and Gevedons of Morgan County, Page 8, http://www.usgenwebsites.org/KYMorgan/military/cw5.pdf
- ^ Willard Rouse Jillson, An Outline of the Geology of Floyd County, Kentucky (1918), p. 31.
- ^ Oil & Gas Journal, Vol. 25 (1927), p. 136.
- ^ Willard Rouse Jillson, Natural Gas in Eastern Kentucky (1937), p. 94.
- ^ Federal Register, Volume 35, Issues 74-84 (April 29, 1970), p. 6779.
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