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Fairview, Missouri

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 2004. It stands in Beaver Township. It lies in ZIP code area 65744. It lies near Ironside Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Protem NE quadrangle.

Fairview within Taney County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

150 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 150 fires within 5 miles of Fairview between 1992 and 2020, burning about 19,278 acres in total. None started naturally. 81 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
Arson/incendiarism81
Missing data/not specified/undetermined47
Debris and open burning20
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
29 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMark Twain National ForestTIDWELL 2
18 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation261360-10606-09182020-1545
25 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined64 acresMark Twain National ForestSILO HOLLOW
4 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,625 acresMark Twain National ForestLIBERTY
11 June 2001Arson/incendiarism40 acresMark Twain National ForestRETURN TO BLACKJACK
7 May 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
9 April 2020Arson/incendiarism40 acresMark Twain National ForestRUETER
9 April 2020Arson/incendiarism1.7 acresMark Twain National ForestBASIN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taney County

Storms near this place

11 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairview in 11 storm reports between 2014 and 2025: 5 heavy rain, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2019Thunderstorm WindFairview$15,000Trees and power lines were reported down along Stehle road in Taney County.
May 2025Heavy RainFairview-Storm total rainfall amount of 7.05 inches from May 23 through May 27.
November 2024Heavy RainFairview-The Mesonet station BEVM7 near Ava measured a 24-hour rainfall total of 8.27 inches.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindFairview-A large tree was reported down across Highway 160.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindFairview-Several large trees were reported across State Highway 125 and Gladetop Trail.
December 2021HailFairview-Half dollar sized hail was reported.
October 2019Heavy RainFairview-The Mesonet station BEVM7 at the Ava RAWS site reported 2.08 inches of rainfall.
October 2019Heavy RainFairview-The Mesonet station BEVM7 at the Ava/Reuter RAWS site reported 4.54 inches of rainfall.
December 2019Thunderstorm WindFairview-A National Weather Service storm survey found extensive tree damage east of Rueter with winds estimated at 85 mph. Several trees were uprooted and many trees were snapped or had large branched removed.
August 2015Heavy RainFairview-The forest service weather observation site in eastern Taney County reported 3.34 inches of rainfall in a few hours.
March 2014HailFairview-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Taney 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
Rueter2.1 miles11
Nance3.6 miles11
Hercules4.9 miles11
Hilda6.8 miles13
Protem7.5 miles11
Eastview (historical)7.7 miles11
Cedarcreek8.4 miles11
Bradleyville10.4 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 749882. 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.

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.