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Fairport, Missouri

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Grant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64469. The Survey maps it on the Maysville quadrangle. It stands 1,020 feet above sea level.

Fairport within DeKalb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

4 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Fairport in 2018, burning about 37 acres in total. None 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
16 July 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation177471-03220-07162018-1118
30 April 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution28 acresMissouri Department of Conservation177470-03220-04302018-2324
3 February 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation176026-03220-02032018-1528
27 January 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.2 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176023-03220-01272018-1610

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeKalb County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Fairport: 5 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
UnkSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnkStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown

Every working recorded in DeKalb County

Storms near this place

14 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairport in 14 storm reports between 1993 and 2017: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 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
September 1993Thunderstorm WindFairport$5,000Trees were uprooted and dime-size hail was reported.
April 2017FloodFairport-State Route W was closed due to flooding along East Fork Lost Creek.
September 2016FloodFairport-Route W was closed at Middle Fork Lost Creek due to flooding. While the damage was largely minimal the amount of damage was unknown.
September 2014Tornado (EF0)Fairport-A weak and brief tornado formed near Fairport, Missouri. Several trees were down across town, and some landed on roofs causing some minor housing damage.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindFairport-Several trees and powerlines were down in the town of Fairport. At least one residence has a roof missing, while other structures in town had trees fall on top of them. This wind damage could be associated with a weak and brief tornado, which was confirmed to have moved through that area, but it's unclear if the damage was a direct result from the tornado or other strong winds from the thunderstorms.
April 2008Thunderstorm WindFairport-Several large tree limbs reported down.
May 2004Tornado (F0)Fairport-Brief satellite tornado touchdown.
September 1993HailFairport-Trees were uprooted and dime-size hail was reported.
August 2015HailFairport-no account filed
April 2005HailFairport-no account filed
May 2005HailFairport-no account filed
March 2002HailFairport-no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindFairport-no account filed
September 2000HailFairport-no account filed

Every storm recorded in DeKalb 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
Wood6.2 miles15
Winslow6.4 miles12
Maysville6.9 miles15
Santa Rosa7.5 miles15
Weatherby7.6 miles15
Amity9.4 miles15
Orchid10.0 miles17
Fordham11.6 miles15

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 FairportAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5430704The 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 729482. 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.