Fairdealing, Missouri
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63953. The Survey maps it on the Fairdealing quadrangle. 543 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 459 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresFairdealing fell from 676 to 543 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 | 676 | |
| 2020 | 543 | -133 (-20%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 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.
- 1935 USGS Acorn quadrangle1:62500
- 1940 USGS Naylor quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Naylor quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Fairdealing quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Poplar Bluff quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
45 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Fairdealing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 552 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 23 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 4 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 13 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 28 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 178113-01201-08282018-1540 |
| 1 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 178110-01201-08012018-1609 |
| 9 July 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 7 July 2001 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 9 April 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 6.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Fairdealing: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Storms near this place
15 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairdealing in 15 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 9 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairdealing | $50,000 | Significant structural damage occurred to a mobile home along Highway JJ near Highway 160. In addition, a roof was blown off a barn and numerous trees were down in Fairdealing. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairdealing | $40,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew windows out of a store and overturned mobile homes. A post-storm survey conducted by local emergency managers indicated a microburst was the likely cause of the damage. The damage path was about half a mile long and 1.5 miles wide, centered half a mile east of Flatwoods. The damage path was oriented from south to north, and included numerous downed trees and power lines. A roof was blown off a mobile home. |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairdealing | $15,000 | Several trees were down, and one shed was destroyed due to a fallen tree. There was also a little damage to the roof of a mobile home. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Fairdealing | - | Quarter to golf-ball size hail was reported from Fairdealing to three miles west of Fairdealing. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairdealing | - | A trained spotter estimated winds gusted to 60 mph. |
| April 2017 | Flash Flood | Fairdealing | - | Some county roads were impassable throughout the county. Water was over U.S. Highway 160 East at the Butler County line and in Fairdealing. Water was over Highway JJ. |
| February 2008 | Hail | Fairdealing | - | The hail was reported just south of Highway 160 along County Road 409. |
| March 2005 | Hail | Fairdealing | - | Dime to nickel-size hail was reported at three places in eastern Ripley County. |
| July 2003 | Hail | Fairdealing | - | Hail was reportedly large enough to break a windshield. |
| June 1995 | Tornado (F0) | Fairdealing | - | A tornado briefly touched down in an open field. |
| May 2020 | Hail | Fairdealing | - | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Hail | Fairdealing | - | no account filed |
| September 2012 | Hail | Fairdealing | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Fairdealing | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Fairdealing | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gamburg | 2.2 miles | 12 | |
| Kingbee (historical) | 4.1 miles | 12 | |
| Flatwoods | 4.6 miles | 12 | |
| Oxly | 6.0 miles | 11 | |
| Naylor | 6.1 miles | 11 | |
| Beaverdam | 6.3 miles | 14 | |
| Martinsburg (historical) | 6.5 miles | 11 | |
| Dryden (historical) | 7.1 miles | 12 |
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 Fairdealing | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3469178 | 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 717731. 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.
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.







