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Fairview, Arkansas

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Manchester Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71763. The Survey maps it on the Sparkman NW quadrangle.

Fairview within Dallas County

On record in Fairview

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

76 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Fairview between 1997 and 2020, burning about 864 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 15 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/undetermined26
Debris and open burning19
Arson/incendiarism15
Natural9
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony2
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
9 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2012Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dallas County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Fairview: 4 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
UnkClayPast Producer
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Dallas County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairview in 1 storm report in 2015: 1 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
May 2015Thunderstorm WindFairview-Trees were blown down across Highway 8 near Sparkman.

Every storm recorded in Dallas 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
Jackson (historical)1.4 miles15
Sparkman4.2 miles15
Dalark4.4 miles7
Manning5.7 miles8
New Hope6.9 miles15
Nix (historical)7.1 miles16
Pine Grove8.5 miles15
Ouachita8.8 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57740. 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.