Midas is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

located in Floyd County,

Kentucky Kentucky (, ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north, West Virginia to the ...

. It is located around the intersection of Midas Road and Kentucky Route 550, North of Hueysville (separated by Midas Tunnel) and West of

Eastern Eastern or Easterns may refer to: Transportation Airlines *China Eastern Airlines, a current Chinese airline based in Shanghai * Eastern Air, former name of Zambia Skyways *Eastern Air Lines, a defunct American airline that operated from 192 ...

. Not much remains except some scattered residences and Midas Road and the Midas Tunnel. CSX

E&BV Subdivision CSX Transportation owns and operates a vast network of rail lines in the United States east of the Mississippi River. In addition to the major systems which merged to form CSX – the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, Lou ...

passes through Midas and crosses Midas Road after exiting the tunnel.

Civil War history

On 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. After staying for a week, Humphrey and his troops traveled farther up Beaver Creek before retreating out of Kentucky and into

Virginia Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the East Coast of the United States ...

Later history

A 1918 survey noted that the Midas Oil & Gas Company was one of "eighteen or twenty oil and gas operating concerns in Floyd County, Kentucky". 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.", 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. In 1970, the Inland Gas Company sought permission and approval from the

Federal Power Commission The Federal Power Commission (FPC) was an independent commission of the United States government, originally organized on June 23, 1930, with five members nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate. The FPC was originally created in ...

to abandon its Midas Compressor Station in Floyd County.

Federal Register The ''Federal Register'' (FR or sometimes Fed. Reg.) is the government gazette, official journal of the federal government of the United States that contains government agency rules, proposed rules, and public notices. It is published every wee ...

, Volume 35, Issues 74-84 (April 29, 1970), p. 6779.

References

Unincorporated communities in Floyd County, Kentucky {{FloydCountyKY-geo-stub