BlockFairview, Idaho
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Preston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83263. The Survey maps it on the Weston quadrangle. It stands 4,518 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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 Preston quadrangle1:125000
- 1915 USGS Preston quadrangle1:96000
- 1918 USGS Preston quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Preston quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Preston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Preston quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Weston quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Preston quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
8 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Fairview between 1996 and 2020, burning about 434 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | CORNISH MERC. |
| 7 August 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | CAMPBELL |
| 31 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 381 acres | Franklin County | FRANKLIN COUNTY ASSIST 1 |
| 19 July 2006 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | PRESTO |
| 1 July 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | CORNISH |
| 4 April 2007 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | COVE |
| 26 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 14 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | COVE ALLEN |
| 12 April 2008 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | HEINER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairview in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2017 | Flash Flood | Fairview | $25,000 | Heavy rains caused flash flooding in Fairview in Franklin County. Several residents of Fairview reported flooding in their homes with 128 homes also without power for 3 to 4 hours. Power was restored at 7:30 pm MDT. |
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.
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 Fairview | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q112049967 | The 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 372646. 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.
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.