Fairview, Nebraska

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Fairview precinct. It lies in ZIP code area 68748. The Survey maps it on the Battle Creek quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Fairview within Madison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1955 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Fremont quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Battle Creek quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Stanton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Fairview (historical) between 2008 and 2017, burning about 529 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
2 April 2009	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
15 April 2016	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
15 April 2008	Debris and open burning	500 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
18 March 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison 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
Kalamazoo	5.1 miles	9
Enola	6.3 miles	9
Madison	7.8 miles	9
Battle Creek	7.8 miles	9
Emerick	8.4 miles	9
Warnerville	8.7 miles	9
Meadow Grove	12.7 miles	9
Norfolk	13.0 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1880350. 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.