Midway is a small incorporated city in northeastern Madison County, Texas, situated at the junction of two historically significant travel routes: the Old San Antonio Road, known as El Camino Real de los Tejas, and the La Bahía Road, which connected early Texas settlements and missions. Today those routes are State Highway OSR and State Highway 21, and their intersection remains the geographic center of the community. The town lies in the rolling farmland and woodland of East Texas, within a few miles of the Trinity River basin, in a landscape of pasture, hayfields, and scattered timber. A settlement existed at the site by 1854, and the community took the name Midway in 1855 when Professor Joseph A. Clark arrived from Midway, Kentucky, and established the town around the crossroads. Its position on these early roads made it a small waypoint, trading stop, and agricultural center through the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, serving the surrounding ranches and farms. The community later incorporated as a city while retaining a distinctly rural, low-density character that has changed little over the decades. Midway is the smallest incorporated city in Madison County, with a population of 173 in the 2020 census. It is a quiet community where most residents own their homes, and its economy and daily life are tied to the surrounding ranches, farms, and the nearby county seat of Madisonville. The community is served by the Madisonville Consolidated Independent School District, and students travel to Madisonville for school. For prospective residents, Midway represents the rural end of the Texas real-estate spectrum: a historic crossroads town offering space, privacy, and a slow pace, positioned between Huntsville to the southeast and Madisonville to the west. Its location on two state highways and its proximity to Interstate 45 keep it connected to the larger towns and cities of East Texas while its own streets remain quiet country roads.