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Fairfield, Montana

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Fairfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59436. The Survey maps it on the Fairfield quadrangle. 759 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,983 feet above sea level.

Fairfield within Teton County

Population over time

2 figures

Fairfield grew from 708 to 759 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
2010708
2020759+51 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Fairfield between 2017 and 2019, burning under an acre 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
21 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTeton Countynot named
12 June 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral Land OfficeSIMMS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Teton County

Storms near this place

27 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairfield in 27 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 2 heavy rain. 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
May 1993Thunderstorm WindFairfield$50,000Lots of trees down.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindFairfield-Ambient Weather Station NE of Augusta.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindFairfield-Ambient Weather Station.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindFairfield-Ambient Weather site measured a sustained mind of 58mph with a peak gust of 66 mph.
June 2022Heavy RainFairfield-Social media report.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindFairfield-A 59 mph gust was recorded by an Ambient weather sensor.
September 2022Thunderstorm WindFairfield-Mesonet near Greenfield Irrigation reported 51 knot wind gust.
August 2019Heavy RainFairfield-A trained spotter measured 1.75 inches of rainfall within one hour.
June 2013HailFairfield-Severe hail measuring 1.75 inches (approximately golfball sized) was reported 8 mi W of Fairfield, MT.
June 2012HailFairfield-Hail measuring 1.25 inches was reported 8 miles WSW of Fairfield.
June 2010HailFairfield-A severe thunderstorm dropped one inch diameter hail at Fairfield 9WSW.
August 2002HailFairfield-A severe thunderstorm produced 0.75 inch hail at Fairfield 8W.
June 2006HailFairfield-no account filed
June 2005HailFairfield-no account filed
June 2005HailFairfield-no account filed
September 2004Thunderstorm WindFairfield-no account filed
September 2004Thunderstorm WindFairfield-no account filed
September 2004Thunderstorm WindFairfield-no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindFairfield-no account filed
June 2003Thunderstorm WindFairfield-no account filed
January 2000Thunderstorm WindFairfield-no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindFairfield-no account filed
August 2000HailFairfield-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindFairfield-no account filed
July 1998HailFairfield-no account filed
June 1998HailFairfield-no account filed
June 1996HailFairfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Teton 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
Greenfield6.6 miles15
Bole6.8 miles11
Cleiv7.0 miles15
Eastham Junction9.9 miles11
Cordova12.8 miles15
Golden Ridge13.5 miles11
Beck (historical)14.6 miles13
Choteau Junction16.8 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 FairfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q965460The 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 771287. 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.