Fairmont, Kansas

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 within a mile 12 of 15 shown

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Bethel A.M.E. Churchlisted 2012 · 0.7 miles away
• Community Houselisted 2006 · 0.8 miles away
• Riley County Courthouselisted 2005 · 0.8 miles away
• Lyda-Jean Apartmentslisted 2004 · 0.8 miles away
• Strasser Houselisted 2010 · 0.8 miles away
• Runyon, Damon Houselisted 2004 · 0.9 miles away
• Mattie M. Elliot Houselisted 1995 · 0.9 miles away
• Manhattan Carnegie Library Buildinglisted 1987 · 0.9 miles away
• Seven Dolors Catholic Churchlisted 1995 · 0.9 miles away
• E. A. and Ura Wharton Houselisted 1995 · 0.9 miles away
• Hulse-Daughters Houselisted 2007 · 1.0 miles away
• Houston and Pierre Streets Residential Historic Districtlisted 2009 · 1.0 miles away

Every listing in Riley County

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.

• 1886 USGS Junction City quadrangle1:125000
• 1889 USGS Junction City quadrangle1:125000
• 1894 USGS Junction City quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
• 1947 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1950 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1955 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1955 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1956 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:250000
• 1982 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:24000
• 1985 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:100000
• 1991 USGS Manhattan quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 133 fires within 5 miles of Fairmont between 2002 and 2020, burning about 2,981 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 were 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Manhattan
• Sunset Park
• Bluemont Hill
• Eureka Lake
• Rocky Ford
• Pillsbury Crossing

Every fire recorded in Riley County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Fairmont: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Riley County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 476390. 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.