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Fairfield, Idaho

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the West Camas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83327. The Survey maps it on the Fairfield quadrangle. 441 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,066 feet above sea level.

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Fairfield within Camas County

On record in Fairfield

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

Population over time

2 figures

Fairfield grew from 416 to 441 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010416
2020441+25 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Fairfield between 2005 and 2018, burning about 719 acres in total. 1 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
Natural1
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 2005Equipment and vehicle use153 acresTwin Falls DistrictPOWELL CRK
14 August 2015Natural125 acresTwin Falls DistrictDEER CREEK
2 October 2018Debris and open burning441 acresTwin Falls DistrictPINEY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Camas County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Fairfield: 2 occurrences, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Geothermal, Gold, Silver, Lead. 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
Barrons Hot SpringGeothermalOccurrence
Texas Star MineGold, Silver, LeadOccurrence
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Camas County

Storms near this place

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairfield in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2015: 3 hail, 2 flash flood. 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 2015Flash FloodFairfield-Heavy rain caused flash flooding on the Ketchum-Featherville road near mile post 21. A mud slide stranded campers and their trailers in Baumgartner campground overnight.
August 2014HailFairfield-The Forest Service office in Fairfield reported quarter size hail just east of town.
June 2006Flash FloodFairfield-no account filed
June 2006HailFairfield-no account filed
August 1998HailFairfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Camas 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
Soldier1.6 miles10
Selby4.3 miles11
Punkin Corner6.7 miles10
Rands7.4 miles11
Corral8.3 miles10
Blaine10.4 miles11
Macon13.1 miles11
Hill City14.1 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.

Wikipedia article on FairfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1516625The 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 399870. 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.