Fairfield, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Fairfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56249. The Survey maps it on the Hancock NW quadrangle. It stands 1,112 feet above sea level.

Fairfield within Swift County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1953 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Saint Cloud quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Hancock NW quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Willmar quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Storms near this place

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairfield in 2 storm reports in 2005: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairfield	-	A machine shed and bin collapsed onto a combine at a farm on Highway 20 in Fairfield Township, Section 33. The debris from the shed and bin were thrown several yards. A farmhouse suffered a broken window and a hole in the roof from flying debris. At the property next door a machine shed had the roof and a door ripped off. Evergreens at a church in Fairfield were downed.
June 2005	Hail	Fairfield	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Swift 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Holloway	10.0 miles	8
Appleton	13.1 miles	7
Danvers	13.7 miles	8
Clontarf	15.6 miles	8
Benson	20.4 miles	8
De Graff	28.1 miles	8
Swift Falls	29.2 miles	8
Murdock	32.7 miles	10

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 Fairfield	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28095147	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 654701. 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.