Fairview, Montana

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Fairview census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59221. The Survey maps it on the Fairview quadrangle. 896 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,913 feet above sea level.

Fairview within Richland County

Population over time

2 figures

Fairview grew from 840 to 896 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.

Year	People	Change
2010	840
2020	896	+56 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 8 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.

1909 USGS Glendive quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Glendive quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Glendive quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Glendive quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Fairview quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Sidney quadrangle1:100000
1997 USGS Fairview quadrangle1:24000

Storms near this place

42 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairview in 42 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 22 hail, 18 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairview	$100,000	A large, four-year old roping barn was destroyed by a microburst. The winds peeled the metal roof back, the tresses collapsed, and the east wall was blown eastward. Based on photographs from the Emergency Manager, and archived radar data, the maximum wind gusts from the microburst were estimated at 95 mph.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairview	$30,000	A total of 21 wooden power poles over a 2.1 mile stretch were snapped off at the bases with an additional two leaning enough to need replacement. A 4000 bushel grain bin was tipped over and an open steel shed had the roof blown off and thrown 150 yards to the north. The measured wind gust was from a Richland County agrimet station right in the area of the poles that were down.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairview	$25,000	Severe thunderstorm winds hit south of Fairview and blew apart grain bins and structurally damaged several farm implement buildings.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairview	$6,000	Six power poles and lines were snapped and damaged.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairview	$5,000	Five power poles and lines were down just west of Highway 16 and Road 144. Wind speeds estimated on other damage in the area and the EF Scale Toolkit.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairview	-	Storm chaser reported hurricane force thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairview	-	Richland County DES Coordinator conducted a storm survey the morning after the storm and provided multiple reports and photos of straight-line wind damage in the town of Fairview with all debris lying in the same direction. Large spruce and cottonwood trees were uprooted; a metal building was caved in; and large tree branches were downed.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairview	-	Straight-line winds blew through the town of Fairview. Photos showed large spruce and cottonwood trees uprooted, a metal building caved in and large tree branches down.
July 2021	Hail	Fairview	-	Public reported, via Facebook, ping-pong ball size hail.
July 2021	Hail	Fairview	-	Public reported, via Facebook, golf ball size hail.
July 2021	Hail	Fairview	-	Public reported, via Facebook, ping-pong ball size hail.
July 2021	Hail	Fairview	-	Public reported, via Facebook, golf ball size hail.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairview	-	Via social media, public reported tree limbs broken and damage to a field.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairview	-	Public reported a large cottonwood tree was uprooted and two evergreen trees wer snapped.
June 2018	Flash Flood	Fairview	-	Trained spotter reported water over the roads in the town of Fairview high enough to cover the wheels on vehicles.
June 2016	Hail	Fairview	-	Public reported nickel sized hail.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairview	-	Four large trees brought down by thunderstorm winds. Tree type unknown.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairview	-	Trees down in Fairview as reported through social media. Tree type unknown.
June 2015	Hail	Fairview	-	Public reported half dollar sized hail.
June 2015	Hail	Fairview	-	Public reported golf ball sized hail.
June 2015	Hail	Fairview	-	Public reported quarter-sized hail.
August 2013	Hail	Fairview	-	Trained spotter reported hail up to the size of quarters and estimated wind gusts up to 40 mph.
July 2013	Hail	Fairview	-	Public reported hail up to the size of quarters.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairview	-	This is a rural area with few trees. No damage reported.
June 2012	Hail	Fairview	-	A trained spotter reported slightly larger than quarter sized hail near Fairview in Richland County.
June 2012	Hail	Fairview	-	Richland County Sheriff Deputy reported nickel sized hail north of highway 201 on highway 16 in Richland County.
May 2011	Flood	Fairview	-	Small streams rose out their banks due to heavy rains and above normal wet spring.
July 2010	Hail	Fairview	-	The mixture of hail and heavy rain destroyed the garden.
June 2010	Hail	Fairview	-	Spotter reported one inch hail.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairview	-	At 1810 MST in Fairview, an estimated 60 mph wind gust occurred. At 1812 1 mile southwest of Fairview, an estimated 70 mph wind caused a 4 inch diameter tree to snap at the base.
June 2009	Hail	Fairview	-	Spotter noted that neighbor south of him witnessed some defoliation.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairview	-	Estimated 70 mph wind gust at Fairview.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairview	-	12 inch diameter trees downed at Fairview.
June 2002	Hail	Fairview	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Fairview	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Fairview	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Fairview	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Fairview	-	no account filed
July 1998	Hail	Fairview	-	no account filed
August 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairview	-	no account filed
June 1997	Hail	Fairview	-	no account filed
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairview	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Richland 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Ludington	2.3 miles	8
Ridgelawn	5.0 miles	8
Wooley	7.1 miles	8
Nohly	9.9 miles	8
Fischer Park	11.0 miles	8
Sidney	11.3 miles	8
Riverview	14.3 miles	8
Brorson (historical)	14.4 miles	7

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 Fairview	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q954524	The 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 771288. 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.

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.