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Fairview, Texas

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the West Brazos census division. It lies in ZIP code area 77807. It stands on Cottonwood Branch. The Survey maps it on the Bryan West quadrangle.

Fairview within Brazos County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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

95 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Fairview between 2005 and 2018, burning about 559 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined51
Debris and open burning18
Equipment and vehicle use10
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
27 September 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service12-0004999 SILVER HILL GRASS FIRE
21 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service15-6069 AGRONOMY FIRE
21 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASSFIRE9-21-2015
2 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASSFIRE9-2-2015
19 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASSFIRE9-19-2015
16 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service13-0005308 BITTLE LANE FIRE
13 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGRASSFIRE9-13-2015
1 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service90120182

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brazos County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Fairview: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gifford-Hill College Station PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Young Brothers Inc ContractorsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Brazos 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
Smetana1.2 miles10
Fountain2.9 miles10
Bryan3.8 miles11
College Station5.6 miles11
Varisco5.7 miles9
Stone City5.9 miles9
Boonville6.0 miles11
Sims6.2 miles9

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 Q114585606The 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 1357171. 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.