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Fairview, Texas

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Hamilton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76525. It lies near Howard Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Evant quadrangle.

Fairview within Hamilton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

109 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Fairview between 2006 and 2020, burning about 2,742 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
Debris and open burning73
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use13
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1
Smoking1

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
9 September 2009Natural6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceMCGILVERY/LIGHTNING
8 September 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLC
4 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceEVANT INTERSECTION
4 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceLC
3 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use90 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDON KENNEDY
23 September 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHC
22 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHC
21 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceCITY OF EVANT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hamilton 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
Vista2.6 miles13
McGirk6.3 miles13
Slab Crossing7.8 miles14
Ballard Crossing7.8 miles14
Ohio8.0 miles14
Parsley Crossing8.0 miles14
Shive8.7 miles13
Schoolerville9.1 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1379749. 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.