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Fairview, Texas

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Muleshoe census division. It lies in ZIP code area 79371. The Survey maps it on the Sudan quadrangle.

Fairview within Bailey County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

44 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Fairview between 2008 and 2020, burning about 12,898 acres in total. 21 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
Natural21
Equipment and vehicle use8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
4 August 2016Natural3,000 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2016082
3 August 2016Natural300 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2016081
11 August 2011Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS 2011-41
11 August 2011Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS 2011-44
11 August 2011Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS 2011-43
11 August 2011Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS 2011-45
11 August 2011Natural3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS 2011-46
11 August 2011Natural1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASS 2011-47

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bailey County

Storms near this place

4 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairview in 4 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 3 hail, 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
April 2025HailFairview-A public report was received of two inch size hail west of Sudan in Bailey County. No damage was reported.
October 2024HailFairview-Local broadcast media relayed a report of quarter size hail northeast of Needmore. Wind driven hail also damaged vinyl siding to a home.
October 2024Thunderstorm WindFairview-An individual's personal weather station measured a wind gust of 66 mph northeast of Needmore.
June 2003HailFairview-An off-duty NWS employee reported golfball size hail.

Every storm recorded in Bailey 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
Circleback5.4 miles8
Needmore8.0 miles8
Muleshoe10.3 miles9
Baileyboro11.9 miles8
Bula13.2 miles9
Progress16.1 miles8
Enochs17.5 miles7
Stegall19.2 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379750. 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.

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.