Fairview, South Dakota

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Manchester Township. It lies in ZIP code area 57231. The Survey maps it on the Bancroft East 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 Kingsbury County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1899 USGS De Smet quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Watertown quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1971 USGS Bancroft East quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS De Smet quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

13 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Fairview (historical) between 1999 and 2017, burning about 129 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Debris and open burning	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Other causes	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
15 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	PALMLUND
29 July 2002	Other causes	1.5 acres	Desmet Volunteer Fire Department	INCIDENT # 724
16 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	RANSCHAU
8 May 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Crooks Volunteer Fire Department	MILE MARKER 395
7 May 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Sturgis Volunteer Fire Department	DM&E #3
18 May 2002	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Desmet Volunteer Fire Department	INCIDENT#713
16 May 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Desmet Volunteer Fire Department	INCIDENT 694
10 May 1999	Debris and open burning	90 acres	Huron Volunteer Fire Dept.	CLYDE #20

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kingsbury County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Fairview (historical): 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Evans Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Kingsbury 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
Manchester	0.9 miles	11
Iroquois	6.8 miles	11
Bancroft	7.5 miles	11
Osceola	8.5 miles	11
Esmond	8.6 miles	11
De Smet	9.2 miles	11
Erwin	16.5 miles	9
Lake Preston	18.4 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1263768. 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.