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Fairview, Oregon

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Gresham census division. It lies in ZIP code area 97024. It stands on Osburn Creek. The Survey maps it on the Camas quadrangle. 10,424 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 114 feet above sea level.

Fairview within Multnomah County

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 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Fairview grew from 7,561 to 10,424 between 2000 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
20007,561
20108,920+1,359 (+18%)
202010,424+1,504 (+17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 24 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

20 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Fairview between 1997 and 2020, burning about 150 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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
Recreation and ceremony10
Arson/incendiarism3
Debris and open burning2
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Natural1

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
2 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreColumbia River Gorge National Scenic AreaSANDY 2
10 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreColumbia River Gorge National Scenic AreaSANDY JUNCTION
9 August 2019Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersRIVERBEND
22 August 2000Equipment and vehicle use130 acresColumbia River Gorge National Scenic AreaDELTA #2
21 August 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreColumbia River Gorge National Scenic AreaSANDY-ODF MOLALLA ASSIST
20 August 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreColumbia River Gorge National Scenic AreaSANDY RIVER
2 August 2007Power generation/transmission/distribution13 acresColumbia River Gorge National Scenic AreaDELTA
17 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCAMAS BRIDGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Multnomah County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 49 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 49 workings within 5 miles of Fairview: 31 past producers, 16 producers, 1 plant, 1 unknown. 17 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
(Facility) Troutdale SmelterAluminumPlant
Camas PlacerTitanium, Iron, GoldUnknown
Red Rock QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
Columbia Brick WorksClayPast Producer
Columbia Brick WorksClayProducer
ImageClayPast Producer
Midvale QuarryStonePast Producer
Midvale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
QuarryStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Multnomah County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairview in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 lightning. 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 2008LightningFairview$2,000Lightning struck the Walt Morey Middle School, damaging some of the computer systems.

Every storm recorded in Multnomah 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
Wood Village0.9 miles24
Interlachen1.1 miles24
Twelvemile Corner1.3 miles24
Troutdale2.5 miles24
Rockwood2.6 miles24
Gresham2.8 miles25
Powell Valley4.2 miles25
Hazelwood5.0 miles33

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 Q2682017The 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 1136277. 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.