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Fairbanks, Arkansas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Cadron Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72013. It lies near Phillips Hill. The Survey maps it on the Morganton quadrangle. It stands 869 feet above sea level.

Fairbanks within Van Buren County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 12 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

40 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Fairbanks between 1997 and 2019, burning about 502 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Debris and open burning13
Arson/incendiarism8
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
3 September 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2000Debris and open burning7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1998Debris and open burning4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 July 2006Natural7.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Van Buren County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Fairbanks: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkStonePast Producer
UnkClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Van Buren County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairbanks in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2012Tornado (EF1)Fairbanks$30,000An EF1 tornado snapped off or uprooted dozens of trees, tore part of the porch roof off a mobile home, overturned a travel trailer, and caused minor damage to a house and a vacant mobile home.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindFairbanks$25,000A large barn was destroyed, with debris being blown across a field.
June 2025Flash FloodFairbanks-Numerous locations along Arkansas Highway 124 were underwater and impassable between Damascus and Quitman.
April 2010HailFairbanks-Golf ball size hail fell west of Quitman, near the Van Buren/Cleburne County line.
May 2008HailFairbanks-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Van Buren County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Sulphur Springs3.5 miles12
Morganton4.1 miles12
Gravesville5.5 miles12
Southside6.4 miles12
Choctaw Pines6.5 miles16
Bee Branch6.5 miles12
East Mountain (historical)6.7 miles12
Chalk (historical)6.8 miles15

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q106400402The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57007. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.