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Fairview, Kansas

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Walnut Township. It lies in ZIP code area 66425. The Survey maps it on the Fairview quadrangle. 240 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,224 feet above sea level.

Fairview within Brown County

On record in Fairview

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

Fairview fell from 260 to 240 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
2010260
2020240-20 (-8%)

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.

Fires near this place

11 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Fairview between 2002 and 2020, burning about 74 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Smoking1
Natural1
Debris and open burning1

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
1 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service0015-44
13 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1800025
7 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKansas Forest Service0015-14
6 March 2020Natural3.0 acresKansas Forest Servicenot named
31 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service0015-25
30 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKansas Forest Service0015-23
1 March 2017Smoking1.0 acresBrown County1700061
2 February 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service1800010

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Storms near this place

40 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairview in 40 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 24 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1993Tornado (F2)Fairview$500,000The tornado began near Highway 75 about eight miles south of Fairview and moved northnortheast damaging about half dozen farmsteads before dissipating southeast of Fairview. The tornado was not on the ground continuously along its path. Debris from the tornado was reported in the sky west of Hiawatha.
March 2006Tornado (F1)Fairview$150,000This F1 tornado crossed into Brown County from Nemaha County about 2.5 miles west-southwest of Fairview, where it damaged one farmstead. The path width was estimated to be 100 yards with the tornado being on the ground in Brown County for less than 1 mile. The damage in Brown County was estimated at $150,000. The tornado formed in a bow echo that produced an otherwise wide swath of wind damage.
April 1999Thunderstorm WindFairview$150,000no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindFairview$50,000High winds caused widespread tree, power line and some structural damage around most the county, especially western and southern sections.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindFairview$3,000Strong winds blew down 6 power poles near Fairview.
August 2012HailFairview$1,000Half dollar sized hail dented a car near Fairview.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindFairview-Report of a house blown off of its foundation.
August 2019Flash FloodFairview-Small creeks out of banks and several roads flooding due to torrential rains.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindFairview-One outbuilding destroyed. Powerlines were down. 0.5 miles east, an old abandoned house was damaged with large trees snapped.
July 2013HailFairview-Delayed report. Hail ranged from dimes to quarters and was wind driven. Wind estimated around 40 to 50 mph. There was minor crop damage report to several crops in the area. Rainfall total for the storm was approx 1 inch.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindFairview-A trained spotter near Fairview reported a 60 mph wind gust.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindFairview-Trained spotters near Fairview reported 60 to 70 mph wind gusts.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindFairview-A trained spotter reported a 60 mph wind gust.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindFairview-A storage shed at the Holthaus Autohaus was demolished by thunderstorm winds.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindFairview-A grain bin was blown onto a roadway, continued to roll, struck a power pole, and knocked down a tree according to newpaper reports.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindFairview-no account filed
May 2019HailFairview-no account filed
April 2017HailFairview-no account filed
April 2016HailFairview-no account filed
August 2013HailFairview-no account filed
May 2013HailFairview-no account filed
March 2012HailFairview-no account filed
May 2011HailFairview-no account filed
May 2011HailFairview-no account filed
May 2011HailFairview-no account filed
March 2009HailFairview-no account filed
March 2009HailFairview-no account filed
June 2009HailFairview-no account filed
June 2005HailFairview-no account filed
June 2004HailFairview-no account filed
June 2003HailFairview-no account filed
June 2003HailFairview-no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindFairview-no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindFairview-no account filed
May 2002HailFairview-no account filed
June 2001HailFairview-no account filed
August 2001HailFairview-no account filed
June 1998HailFairview-no account filed
July 1997HailFairview-no account filed
May 1996HailFairview-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Brown 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
Sun Springs3.6 miles17
Fidelity4.8 miles17
Morrill6.3 miles17
Hamlin7.4 miles17
Powhattan7.6 miles17
Hiawatha10.2 miles18
Padonia10.4 miles17
Baker10.6 miles18

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 Q766900The 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 472974. 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.