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Fairview, Arkansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Marion County Township. It lies in ZIP code area 72634. The Survey maps it on the Cotter quadrangle.

Fairview within Marion 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

13 surveys from 18 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

24 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Fairview between 1999 and 2018, burning about 220 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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
Debris and open burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1

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
30 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined27 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 2001Misuse of fire by a minor5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
31 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
29 July 2012Natural5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
8 June 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 May 2012Debris and open burning3.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
5 April 2007Debris and open burning10 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 41 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 41 workings within 5 miles of Fairview: 20 occurrences, 13 unknowns, 3 past producers, 3 prospects. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc, Stone. 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
Shiras MineIron, Zinc, LeadProspect
Corbin Iron DepositIronOccurrence
Flippin QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Flippin QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Kenneth Mcdowell PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Marion County Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown QuarryStoneUnknown
Unknown QuarryStoneUnknown
Unknown QuarryStoneUnknown
Cincinnati Bill MineLead, ZincUnknown

Every working recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairview in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 hail. 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
August 2011Thunderstorm WindFairview$5,000A severe thunderstorm blew trees down.
July 2024Flash FloodFairview-The Marion County Road 8060 bridge over Moccasin Creek was partially washed out and impassable from flash flooding and high water over the bridge near Fairview.
July 2009Flash FloodFairview-Street flooding occurred at Bull Shoals State Park.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindFairview-Trees were blown down.
May 2009HailFairview-no account filed
September 2005Thunderstorm WindFairview-no account filed
May 1999Flash FloodFairview-no account filed
March 1998HailFairview-no account filed
November 1998Thunderstorm WindFairview-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Stone (historical)1.8 miles17
Kingdom Springs (historical)2.9 miles17
Bull Shoals3.7 miles18
Flippin3.8 miles18
Midway6.2 miles17
Summit7.2 miles17
Rea Valley8.4 miles17
Yellville8.5 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 48966. 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.