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Fairview, Oregon

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Eastside census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97423. It lies near Burton Prairie. The Survey maps it on the McKinley quadrangle. It stands 131 feet above sea level.

Fairview within Coos County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

46 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Fairview between 1992 and 2019, burning about 45 acres in total. 5 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 burning15
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural5
Smoking5
Other causes3
Recreation and ceremony3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1
Fireworks1

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
7 September 2001Other causesunder an acreCoos Forest Protective AssociationMIDDLE CREEK
28 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCoos Forest Protective AssociationCEMETERY ROAD
28 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCoos Forest Protective AssociationN FK COQUILLE
22 September 2001Other causesunder an acreBridge UnitLEE VALLEY
21 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCoos Forest Protective AssociationBLUE RIDGE
21 September 2009Naturalunder an acreCoos Bay DistrictLONE PINE ROAD
12 September 1997Naturalunder an acreBridge UnitYANKEE RUN
12 September 1994Smokingunder an acreCoos Forest Protective AssociationCUNNINGHAM CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coos County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Fairview: 3 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Fairview SiteStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hervey QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Art E JonesStonePast Producer
Art E. Jones PitStoneProducer
Fairview SiteStonePast Producer
Hervey QuarryStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Coos 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
McKinley3.2 miles19
Lee (historical)3.4 miles19
Sumner6.1 miles21
Coquille6.6 miles19
Green Acres7.5 miles21
Dora7.5 miles11
Gravelford7.7 miles19
Cedar Point7.8 miles19

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 Q5430740The 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 1120567. 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.