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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.

Fairdealing within Ripley County

Population over time

2 figures

Fairdealing 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.

YearPeople Change
2010676
2020543-133 (-20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

45 since 1992

Regional 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 burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking1

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
9 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 September 2000Debris and open burning6.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
13 September 2000Debris and open burning6.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
28 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178113-01201-08282018-1540
1 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178110-01201-08012018-1609
9 July 2000Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
7 July 2001Debris and open burning6.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 April 2000Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ripley County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ripley County

Storms near this place

15 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2019Thunderstorm WindFairdealing$50,000Significant 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 1998Thunderstorm WindFairdealing$40,000Thunderstorm 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 2020Thunderstorm WindFairdealing$15,000Several 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 2019HailFairdealing-Quarter to golf-ball size hail was reported from Fairdealing to three miles west of Fairdealing.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindFairdealing-A trained spotter estimated winds gusted to 60 mph.
April 2017Flash FloodFairdealing-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 2008HailFairdealing-The hail was reported just south of Highway 160 along County Road 409.
March 2005HailFairdealing-Dime to nickel-size hail was reported at three places in eastern Ripley County.
July 2003HailFairdealing-Hail was reportedly large enough to break a windshield.
June 1995Tornado (F0)Fairdealing-A tornado briefly touched down in an open field.
May 2020HailFairdealing-no account filed
June 2019HailFairdealing-no account filed
September 2012HailFairdealing-no account filed
April 2011HailFairdealing-no account filed
August 2003HailFairdealing-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ripley 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
Gamburg2.2 miles12
Kingbee (historical)4.1 miles12
Flatwoods4.6 miles12
Oxly6.0 miles11
Naylor6.1 miles11
Beaverdam6.3 miles14
Martinsburg (historical)6.5 miles11
Dryden (historical)7.1 miles12

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 FairdealingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3469178The 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.