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.
Population over time
2 figuresFairview 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 522 | |
| 2020 | 426 | -96 (-18%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 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.
- 1912 USGS Canton quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1961 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Fairview quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Galesburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Galesburg quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1995 USGS Fairview quadrangle1:24000
Storms near this place
23 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1997 | Tornado (F1) | Fairview | 2 hurt, $450,000 | no account filed |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairview | $60,000 | Numerous trees were blown down. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairview | $30,000 | Several trees and power poles were snapped just north of Fairview. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairview | $12,000 | Power lines were blown down in Fairview. |
| December 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairview | $8,000 | The roof of a patio was blown off its supports and a small utility shed was flipped over. |
| December 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairview | - | Powerlines were blown down. |
| December 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairview | - | Power lines were blown down. |
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairview | - | Sporadic two to four inch diameter tree limbs were blown down north of Fairview. |
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairview | - | Emergency manager estimated 60 to 70 mph winds in Fairview. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairview | - | The wind gust was estimated by an emergency manager. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairview | - | Numerous large tree branches were broken. |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairview | - | Large tree limbs and power lines blown down. |
| April 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairview | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees, tree limbs and power lines northwest of Fairview and in Canton. |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairview | - | Large tree limbs were reported down in Fairview. Power poles down on Route 78. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairview | - | 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 2019 | Hail | Fairview | - | no account filed |
| June 2017 | Hail | Fairview | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Fairview | - | no account filed |
| July 2017 | Hail | Fairview | - | no account filed |
| June 2014 | Hail | Fairview | - | no account filed |
| July 2008 | Hail | Fairview | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Fairview | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Fairview | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bybee | 2.7 miles | 16 | |
| Fiatt | 5.1 miles | 16 | |
| Middlegrove | 6.0 miles | 16 | |
| Midway (historical) | 6.2 miles | 17 | |
| Gilchrist | 6.6 miles | 16 | |
| Norris | 7.0 miles | 16 | |
| Brereton | 7.5 miles | 17 | |
| Ellisville | 7.5 miles | 16 |
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 Q2671693 | 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 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.








