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Fairville, Iowa

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Fairfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50528. The Survey maps it on the Fenton quadrangle.

Fairville within Palo Alto County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Fairville between 2009 and 2011, burning about 405 acres in total. None 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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3

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
7 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resources580TH & 280TH, IA
14 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined401 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
2 December 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesP-30 & 300TH ST. INTERSECTION. W SIDE OF P-30 BURN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Palo Alto 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 Fairville: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Hansen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Palo Alto County

Storms near this place

3 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairville in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2025: 1 heavy rain, 1 hail, 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
July 2025Thunderstorm WindFairville-Personal weather station gust to 72 mph.
April 2022HailFairville-Law enforcement reported quarter sized hail.
June 2014Heavy RainFairville-A farmer in northwest of Wittenmore reported 6 inches of rain.

Every storm recorded in Palo Alto 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
Depew4.6 miles7
Cylinder6.6 miles7
Rodman9.5 miles7
Emmetsburg12.0 miles7
Osgood12.9 miles7
West Bend13.8 miles8
Graettinger16.3 miles7
Fallow (historical)18.2 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 456526. 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.