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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Fairview, Ohio

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Wayne Township. It lies in ZIP code area 43160. The Survey maps it on the Good Hope quadrangle.

Fairview within Fayette County

Then and now

1917 to 1986

The same ground, surveyed 69 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 1986
Topographic sheet of Fairview, surveyed 1917

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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.

In the 1914 county history

5,380 words on this township

The county history of 1914 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for the smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Wayne Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Wayne Township - 5,380 words.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 185 shown

Museums hold 185 specimens collected within 10 miles of Fairview between 1907 and 1974: 180 Animalia, 3 Plantae, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Bowles, P. (Pearl), Brubaker, J. A. & Higgins, Brubaker, J. A. & Link, B. and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
A photograph of the species Accipiter cooperii, not of this specimenAccipiter cooperii (Bonaparte, 1828)1907Hegler, A. (Almer)Fairview, Fayette, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Buteo jamaicensis, not of this specimenButeo jamaicensis borealis (Gmelin, 1788)1907Hegler, A. (Almer)Fairview Sta., Fayette, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Buteo lagopus, not of this specimenButeo lagopus sanctijohannis (Gmelin, 1788)1907Hegler, A. (Almer)Fairview Sta., Fayette, Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Falco rusticolus, not of this specimenFalco rusticolus obsoletus (J.F.Gmelin, 1788)1907Hegler, A. (Almer)Washington C.H., Fayette, Ohio, USA
Tiphiidae1925Pallister, J. C. (John C.)Madison, Fayette Co., Ohio, USA
A photograph of the species Noturus miurus, not of this specimenNoturus miurus Jordan, 18771926Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)water unknown, #10 Fayette Co, n/a, township n/a
A photograph of the species Plethodon richmondi, not of this specimenPlethodon richmondi Netting & Mittleman, 19381929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)Perry Twp., Fayette Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Rana clamitans, not of this specimenRana clamitans Latreille, 18011929Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)SW Wayne Twp., Fayette Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Acris crepitans, not of this specimenAcris crepitans Baird, 18541930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)SW Wayne Twp., Fayette Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Bufo americanus, not of this specimenBufo americanus Holbrook, 18361930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.)SW Wayne Twp., Fayette Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Rana pipiens, not of this specimenRana pipiens Schreber, 17821930Walker, C. F. (Charles F.) & Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard)SW Wayne Twp., Fayette Co., Ohio
A photograph of the species Hypagyrtis unipunctata, not of this specimenHypagyrtis unipunctata (Haworth, 1809)1931G.W. RawsonGood Hope

All 185 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Storms nearby

3 since 2018

The National Weather Service names Fairview in 3 storm reports between 2018 and 2021: 2 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2021Thunderstorm WindFairview$3,000A few trees were downed.
June 2018FloodFairview-Several roads were closed due to high standing water. One bridge was closed on State Route 753 due to a creek flowing across it.
June 2018FloodFairview-A road was impassable due to high water.

Every storm recorded in Fayette 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
Plano1.2 miles12
McLean1.9 miles12
Good Hope3.9 miles12
Boyds4.3 miles11
Johnson4.8 miles11
Kingfred (historical)5.0 miles11
West Holland5.5 miles11
Olympia (historical)5.7 miles11

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 Q22034024The 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 1062756. 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.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

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.