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Midland may refer to: Places Australia * Midland, Western Australia Canada * Midland, Albert County, New Brunswick * Midland, Kings County, New Brunswick * Midland, Newfoundland and Labrador * Midland, Ontario India * Midland Ward, Kohima, Nagaland * Madhyadesha (), historical region of northern and central India *Madhya Pradesh (), state of India Ireland * Midland Region, Ireland United States * Midland, Arkansas * Midland, California * Midoil, California, formerly Midland * Midland, Georgia * Midland, Indiana * Midland, Kentucky * Midland, Louisiana * Midland, Maryland * Midland, Michigan * Midland, Missouri * Midland, North Carolina * Midlands of South Carolina * Midland, Ohio * Midland, Oregon * Midland, Pennsylvania * Midland, South Dakota * Midland, Tennessee * Midland, Texas * Midland, Virginia * Midland, Washington * Midland City, Alabama Railways * Buenos Aires Midland Railway, a former British-owned railway company in Argentina * Colorado Midland Railway ...
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Midland, Western Australia
Midland is a suburb and historic town of Perth, Western Australia, located northeast of Perth's central business district. It is the administrative seat and commercial centre of the City of Swan The City of Swan is a Local government areas of Western Australia, local government area of Western Australia, in the Eastern Metropolitan Regional Council, eastern metropolitan region of Perth. It is named after the Swan River (Western Austral ... local government area. It is also a designated strategic metropolitan centre for the larger Perth metropolitan area. History Railway Midland was the site of the Midland Railway Workshops - the main workshops for the Western Australian Government Railways for over 80 years. It was also a terminus for the Midland Railway Company. At the end of the Second World War it was the junction of the Midland Railway, the Upper Darling Range railway, and the main Eastern Railway. The Transperth suburban railway system currently has a termi ...
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Midland, Michigan
Midland is a city in Midland County, Michigan, United States, and its county seat. The population was 42,547 at the 2020 census. It is the principal city of the Midland metropolitan statistical area, part of the larger Saginaw-Midland-Bay City combined statistical area. The city is bordered by Midland Township, though the two are administered separately. Midland is located at the confluence of Chippewa and Tittabawassee rivers in Central Michigan. The city is home to the headquarters of Dow Chemical Company, one of the largest chemical producers in the world, which was founded by Herbert Henry Dow in the city in 1897. The city is also home to Midland Center for the Arts and Northwood University. History By the late 1820s, Midland was established as a fur trading post of the American Fur Company supervised by the post at Saginaw. Here agents purchased furs from Ojibwe trappers. The Campau family of Detroit operated an independent trading post at this location in th ...
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Buenos Aires Midland Railway
The Buenos Aires Midland Railway (BAM) was a British-owned railway company which operated in Argentina, where it was known as Ferrocarril Midland de Buenos Aires. The company built and operated the gauge (metre gauge) line between Puente Alsina railway station, Puente Alsina and Carhué in Buenos Aires Province. After the Railway nationalisation in Argentina, railway nationalisation in Argentina in 1948, the BAM became part of Belgrano Sur Line, the company closing as a result. Today services on the line are operated by the state-owned company Trenes Argentinos, the concessionary of Puente Alsina railway station, Puente Alsina-Marinos del Crucero General Belgrano branch. History Background In 1904, the Buenos Aires Province granted entrepreneur Enrique Lavalle a concession to build a metre gauge railway, metre gauge railway line between Puente Alsina railway station, Puente Alsina and Carhué. The company and line were named "Buenos Aires Midland Railway", so the Lacroze ...
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Midland City, Alabama
Midland City is a town in Dale County, Alabama, United States. At the 2010 U.S. Census the population was 2,344. It incorporated in 1890. It is part of the Ozark Micropolitan Statistical Area. History 2013 hostage standoff On January 29, 2013, 65-year-old Vietnam War-era veteran Jimmy Lee Dykes climbed aboard a school bus and fatally shot the driver; he then abducted at random a five-year-old boy named Ethan, who was sitting at the closest seat. He took Ethan into an underground bunker, where he held him captive. About a week after the incident, FBI agents were able to storm the bunker, kill Dykes, and rescue Ethan. Geography Midland City is located in southeastern Dale County at (31.307945, -85.490606). It is bordered to the east by the town of Napier Field, to the southeast by the city of Dothan, and to the west by the town of Pinckard. U.S. Route 231 passes through the town, leading northwest to Ozark, the Dale County seat, and southeast to the center of Dothan. ...
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Midland, Washington
Midland is a census-designated place (CDP) in Pierce County, Washington. The population was 9,962 at the time of the 2020 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 3.04 square miles (7.9 km2), all of it land. History The area that we have come to know as Midland in part was often referred to by the pioneers as Puyallup Hill. Taking advantage of the Governments Donation Land Grant of 1850, both Ezra Meeker and his older brother Oliver Meeker settled in the area in 1855. This was after their father, Jacob Meeker came west. Jacob settled in the area of South Tacoma. Not wanting to cross the sound Jacob talked both sons into moving to the mainland from their island home on McNeil Island. With this Ezra and Oliver staked out claims on the mainland next to each other. Ezra located his claim on the north side of Oliver's claim. These claims were described as the forest between Nisqually Plain and the Puyallup River. Hudso ...
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Midland, Virginia
Midland is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fauquier County, Virginia, United States. The population as of the 2010 census was 218. Midland is home to a post office with the local ZIP code of 22728. Midland is the closest community to the birthplace of John Marshall, the longest-serving Chief Justice in U.S. Supreme Court history. A small park honors his birthplace, with a marker placed where his home once stood. The county is also designated as part of the John Marshall Soil and Water Conservation District. Geography Midland is in southern Fauquier County along State Route 28, northeast of Bealeton and southwest of Calverton. Warrenton, the Fauquier County seat, is to the north. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , of which , or 0.20%, is water. The Warrenton–Fauquier Airport is situated in Midland. Ross Industries is a company that has its headquarters in Midland. C. M. Crockett Park is located just north of Midland. It has Germant ...
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Midland, Texas
Midland is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Midland County with small portions extending into Martin County. The population was 132,524 as of the 2020 census. Located in the Permian Basin in West Texas, Midland is a major center for American oil and natural gas production. Midland is the principal city of the Midland, Texas metropolitan statistical area, which includes all of Midland County, the population of which was 169,983 in the 2020 U.S. Census. The metropolitan area is part of the larger Midland–Odessa combined statistical area, which had a population of 340,391 in the 2020 census. Residents of Midland are referred to as 'Midlanders'. Midland was founded as the midway point between Fort Worth and El Paso on the Texas and Pacific Railroad in 1881. The city has many connections to the Bush family; it was the one time home of former Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush and the hometown of former First Lady Laura Bush. The Bu ...
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Midland, Tennessee
Midland is an unincorporated community in Rutherford County, in the U.S. state of Tennessee Tennessee (, ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Kentucky to the north, Virginia to the northeast, North Carolina t .... History A variant name was "Middleton". A post office called Middleton was established in 1832, and closed in 1870; a post office operated as Midland from 1886 until 1907. Besides the post office, the community contained a country store. References Unincorporated communities in Rutherford County, Tennessee Unincorporated communities in Tennessee {{RutherfordCountyTN-geo-stub ...
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Midland, South Dakota
Midland is a rural small town in the southeastern corner of Haakon County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 112 at the 2020 census. History Midland was laid out in 1890. The town was named from its location halfway between the Missouri and Cheyenne rivers. A post office called Midland has been in operation since 1890. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all land. Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 129 people, 66 households, and 36 families residing in the town. The population density was . There were 92 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the town was 94.6% White, 4.7% Native American, and 0.8% from two or more races. There were 66 households, of which 16.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 47.0% were married couples living together, 4.5% had a female householder with no husband present, 3.0% had a male householder with no wife present, ...
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Midland, Pennsylvania
Midland is a borough located along the Ohio River The Ohio River () is a river in the United States. It is located at the boundary of the Midwestern and Southern United States, flowing in a southwesterly direction from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to its river mouth, mouth on the Mississippi Riv ... in western Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 2,433. It is part of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. Founded in 1906, it was initially a company town surrounding the Crucible Industries, Crucible Steel Company's Midland Works. History Native Americans in the United States, Native American petroglyphs exist in the area surrounding Midland, including on Babbs Island, the Little Beaver Creek, and Shippingport Bridge. In 1905, Pittsburgh agent T. K. Miller purchased land on behalf of a group of industrialists who would form the Midland Steel Company and with it, the borough of Midland as a company town in 19 ...
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Midland, Oregon
Midland is an unincorporated community in Klamath County, Oregon, United States. The community is located approximately south of Klamath Falls on U.S. Route 97. History The site was platted in 1908 and named Midland, with a post office established in 1909. At the time it was said the name was chosen because the town was halfway between Portland and San Francisco on the proposed Cascade Line of the Southern Pacific Railroad. It is not halfway, however, and it is now thought that the name refers to the town's site on land partly surrounded by marshes. When the Cascade Line reached Midland, the community served as a depot and shipping point for cattle and other livestock, and it once had two general stores, a hotel with a saloon, a livery stable, a warehouse for grain and a telephone office. Little remains in Midland today, but Klamath County's visitor center is located there. Climate This region experiences warm (but not hot) and dry summers, with no average monthly temper ...
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Midland, Ohio
Midland is a village in Clinton County, Ohio, United States. The population was 307 at the 2020 census. History Midland was originally called Clinton Valley. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 315 people, 109 households, and 76 families living in the village. The population density was . There were 128 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the village was 96.2% White, 1.0% African American, and 2.9% from two or more races. There were 109 households, of which 41.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 42.2% were married couples living together, 18.3% had a female householder with no husband present, 9.2% had a male householder with no wife present, and 30.3% were non-families. 25.7% of all households were made up of individuals, and 5.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average house ...
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