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Fairview, Arkansas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in District 6. It lies in ZIP code area 71653. The Survey maps it on the Lake Village quadrangle.

Fairview within Chicot County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Fairview between 2002 and 2013, burning about 103 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

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
21 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined47 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
13 July 2006Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
14 June 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 October 2010Smoking50 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chicot County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairview in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2019: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
March 2014Thunderstorm WindFairview$20,000Power lines were blown down at US 82 and US 65.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindFairview$9,000A few trees were blown down and many large limbs were broken off.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindFairview$8,000A few trees and power lines were blown down just east of Lake Village along Highway 82.

Every storm recorded in Chicot 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
Chanticleer1.5 miles13
Myrtle Grove1.9 miles13
Jennie2.3 miles13
Lakehall3.1 miles13
Lake Village3.3 miles13
Red Leaf3.5 miles15
Bayou Macon (historical)4.1 miles13
Sunnyside4.3 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 Q18150620The 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 57739. 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.

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.