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Fairview, Illinois

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1995. It stands in Fairview Township. It lies in ZIP code area 61432. The Survey maps it on the Fairview quadrangle. 426 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 737 feet above sea level.

Fairview within Fulton County

Population over time

2 figures

Fairview fell from 522 to 426 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
2010522
2020426-96 (-18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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.

Storms near this place

23 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairview in 23 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 1 tornado. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
April 1997Tornado (F1)Fairview2 hurt, $450,000no account filed
June 2021Thunderstorm WindFairview$60,000Numerous trees were blown down.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindFairview$30,000Several trees and power poles were snapped just north of Fairview.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindFairview$12,000Power lines were blown down in Fairview.
December 2008Thunderstorm WindFairview$8,000The roof of a patio was blown off its supports and a small utility shed was flipped over.
December 2025Thunderstorm WindFairview-Powerlines were blown down.
December 2025Thunderstorm WindFairview-Power lines were blown down.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindFairview-Sporadic two to four inch diameter tree limbs were blown down north of Fairview.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindFairview-Emergency manager estimated 60 to 70 mph winds in Fairview.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindFairview-The wind gust was estimated by an emergency manager.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindFairview-Numerous large tree branches were broken.
September 2005Thunderstorm WindFairview-Large tree limbs and power lines blown down.
April 2003Thunderstorm WindFairview-Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees, tree limbs and power lines northwest of Fairview and in Canton.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindFairview-Large tree limbs were reported down in Fairview. Power poles down on Route 78.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindFairview-A line of severe storms moved southeast across Fulton County. It blew down numerous trees, tree limbs, power lines, and power poles 6 miles north of Fairview, in Farmington, and in Canton.
May 2019HailFairview-no account filed
June 2017HailFairview-no account filed
July 2017HailFairview-no account filed
July 2017HailFairview-no account filed
June 2014HailFairview-no account filed
July 2008HailFairview-no account filed
May 2006HailFairview-no account filed
June 2002HailFairview-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fulton 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
Bybee2.7 miles16
Fiatt5.1 miles16
Middlegrove6.0 miles16
Midway (historical)6.2 miles17
Gilchrist6.6 miles16
Norris7.0 miles16
Brereton7.5 miles17
Ellisville7.5 miles16

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 FairviewAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2671693The 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 408187. 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.

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.