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.
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
Delaware River Warren Truss Bridgelisted 2004
Population over time
2 figuresFairview 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 260 | |
| 2020 | 240 | -20 (-8%) |
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.
- 1888 USGS Hiawatha quadrangle1:125000
- 1894 USGS Hiawatha quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Fairview quadrangle1:24000
- 1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Atchison quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
11 since 2002Regional 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/undetermined | 8 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 0015-44 |
| 13 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1800025 |
| 7 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 0015-14 |
| 6 March 2020 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | not named |
| 31 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 0015-25 |
| 30 March 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kansas Forest Service | 0015-23 |
| 1 March 2017 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Brown County | 1700061 |
| 2 February 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kansas Forest Service | 1800010 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
40 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1993 | Tornado (F2) | Fairview | $500,000 | The 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 2006 | Tornado (F1) | Fairview | $150,000 | This 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 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairview | $150,000 | no account filed |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairview | $50,000 | High winds caused widespread tree, power line and some structural damage around most the county, especially western and southern sections. |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairview | $3,000 | Strong winds blew down 6 power poles near Fairview. |
| August 2012 | Hail | Fairview | $1,000 | Half dollar sized hail dented a car near Fairview. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairview | - | Report of a house blown off of its foundation. |
| August 2019 | Flash Flood | Fairview | - | Small creeks out of banks and several roads flooding due to torrential rains. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairview | - | One outbuilding destroyed. Powerlines were down. 0.5 miles east, an old abandoned house was damaged with large trees snapped. |
| July 2013 | Hail | Fairview | - | 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 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairview | - | A trained spotter near Fairview reported a 60 mph wind gust. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairview | - | Trained spotters near Fairview reported 60 to 70 mph wind gusts. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairview | - | A trained spotter reported a 60 mph wind gust. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairview | - | A storage shed at the Holthaus Autohaus was demolished by thunderstorm winds. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairview | - | 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 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairview | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Fairview | - | no account filed |
| April 2017 | Hail | Fairview | - | no account filed |
| April 2016 | Hail | Fairview | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Hail | Fairview | - | no account filed |
| May 2013 | Hail | Fairview | - | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Hail | Fairview | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Fairview | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Fairview | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Fairview | - | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Hail | Fairview | - | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Hail | Fairview | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Fairview | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Fairview | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Fairview | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Fairview | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Hail | Fairview | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairview | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairview | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Fairview | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Fairview | - | no account filed |
| August 2001 | Hail | Fairview | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Fairview | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Hail | Fairview | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | 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.
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 Q766900 | 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 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.








