Fairbank, Arizona

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

Surveyed buildings and structures 3 records

• Fairbank Commercial Company Building, Fairbankfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Fairbank Hotel, Fairbankfederal building survey, 3 photographs
• Santa Ana de Quiburi Mission (Ruins), Fairbankfederal building survey, 2 photographs

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.

• 1915 USGS Benson quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
• 1932 USGS Fairbank quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Benson quadrangle1:125000
• 1952 USGS Fairbank quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1952 USGS Tombstone quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Nogales quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1958 USGS Nogales quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Nogales quadrangle1:250000
• 1994 USGS Fort Huachuca quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
• 1996 USGS Fairbank quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Fairbank (historical) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,080 acres in total. 7 started naturally. None 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Benson Junction
• Boquillas
• Charleston (historical)
• Contention
• Lewis Springs

Every fire recorded in Cochise County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Fairbank (historical): 13 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Mica, Clay, Silver, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Cochise County

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

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 4533. 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.