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Fairview, Missouri

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Franklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64842. The Survey maps it on the Wheaton quadrangle. 419 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,302 feet above sea level.

Fairview within Newton County

Population over time

2 figures

Fairview grew from 383 to 419 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
2010383
2020419+36 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

12 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Fairview between 1993 and 2017, burning about 62 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning9
Arson/incendiarism2
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
10 September 1996Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
5 August 1994Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 August 1994Arson/incendiarism20 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
2 August 1994Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
8 May 2017Debris and open burning10 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
1 April 1995Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 March 1994Debris and open burning3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 March 1993Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Fairview: 9 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zinc, Lead. 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
Allen & Stark MineZinc, LeadPast Producer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Feney LandLead, ZincProspect
Morton LandLead, ZincPast Producer
Northcutt MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Pioneer MineLead, ZincPast Producer
Unknown - Lead-ZincLead, ZincPast Producer
Unknown - Lead-ZincLead, ZincPast Producer
Unknown - Lead-ZincLead, ZincPast Producer
Unknown - Lead-ZincLead, ZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in Newton County

Storms near this place

13 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairview in 13 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 5 hail, 5 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
April 2025Thunderstorm WindFairview$50,000Several outbuildings and a few barns were damaged by high winds.
December 2002Tornado (F0)Fairview$50,000no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindFairview$35,000no account filed
July 2023Thunderstorm WindFairview$30,000Several power poles were pushed over onto the road blocking traffic. Power outages occurred in town as a result of the downed poles and power lines.
March 2024Thunderstorm WindFairview-A public weather station measured a wind gust to 64 mph northwest of Wheaton.
May 2020HailFairview-Quarter sized hail was reported.
May 2020HailFairview-Nickle sized hail was reported.
May 2020HailFairview-Quarter sized hail was reported.
November 2015FloodFairview-A portion of Oak Road near Fairview was flooded.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindFairview-A tree was blown down.
May 2006Flash FloodFairview-Excessive rainfall caused a low water crossing on Jolly Mill Drive that intersects Shoal Creek to become impassable from flash flooding.
May 2003HailFairview-no account filed
June 1996HailFairview-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Newton 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
Grangeville (historical)1.3 miles11
Newstead (historical)2.2 miles11
Chester (historical)4.1 miles11
Wadell4.4 miles11
Jolly5.5 miles11
Wanda5.9 miles11
Stark City6.0 miles11
Newtonia6.6 miles11

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 FairviewAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q967461The 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 717748. 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.