Midas, Kentucky

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.[2] After staying for a week, Humphrey and his troops traveled farther up Beaver Creek before retreating out of Kentucky and into Virginia.[3]

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".[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]