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Fairview, New York

35 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1995. It stands in Poughkeepsie town. It lies in ZIP code area 12601. It stands on Fall Kill. The Survey maps it on the Poughkeepsie quadrangle. 5,475 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 220 feet above sea level.

Fairview within Dutchess County

Then and now

1893 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 102 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fairview, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Fairview, surveyed 1893

Compare 1893 against another survey:

On record in Fairview

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 4 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Fairview fell from 5,515 to 5,475 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
20105,515
20205,475-40 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 35 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

654 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 654 fires within 5 miles of Fairview between 1992 and 2020, burning about 476 acres in total. 33 started naturally. 96 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined364
Arson/incendiarism96
Smoking64
Debris and open burning34
Natural33
Misuse of fire by a minor26
Equipment and vehicle use15
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Recreation and ceremony7
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Other causes2

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
9 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2015Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
7 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2007Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2005Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
7 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dutchess County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Fairview: 17 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Stone, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Probably Borrow Pits of Soft Rock Or Unconsolidated MaterialClay, StonePast ProducerChert
Sandstone Rock Quarry No. Hj-010Stone, DimensionPast ProducerSandstone
Limestone Quarry No. Hj-0.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Limestone Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Milton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pleasant Valley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Probably Borrow Pit of Soft Rock Or Unconsolidated MaterialStone, ClayPast ProducerChert
Probably Borrow Pit of Soft Rock Or Unconsolidated MaterialStone, ClayPast ProducerChert
Probably Borrow Pit of Soft Rock Or Unconsolidated MaterialStone, ClayPast ProducerChert
Borrow PitStone, ClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dutchess County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairview in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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
July 2024Thunderstorm WindFairview$1,000A tree was downed on U.S. Route 9 near Fulton Street in Poughkeepsie.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindFairview-A tree was downed onto power lines.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindFairview-Wires pulled from house on Peter Cooper Drive.
August 2008Flash FloodFairview-Several basements were flooded approximately 2 miles north of Poughkeepsie due to flash flooding from heavy rainfall.

Every storm recorded in Dutchess 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
The Gables1.5 miles35
Poughkeepsie1.6 miles35
Hudson Heights1.9 miles35
Arlington2.3 miles35
Haviland3.1 miles30
MacDonnell Heights3.2 miles34
Colonial Heights3.3 miles34
Rochdale3.6 miles34

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 Q3460316The 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 949825. 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.