BlockFairview, Texas
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Claude North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79019. The Survey maps it on the Fairview quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Amarillo quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Amarillo quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Fairview quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Amarillo quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
32 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Fairview between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,435 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2007 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 23 August 2008 | Natural | 50 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 22 August 2008 | Natural | 1.5 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 16 August 2020 | Natural | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | FIRE |
| 4 July 2006 | Natural | 150 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 18 July 2007 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | not named |
| 11 July 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | FIRE |
| 6 June 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HWAY 287 & CO. RDS. 5-7 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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 Fairview | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q110612669 | The 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 1379751. 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.