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Fairview, Texas

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Laneville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75784. It stands on Wheelus Branch. The Survey maps it on the New Salem quadrangle.

Fairview within Rusk County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

123 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 123 fires within 5 miles of Fairview between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,481 acres in total. 7 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 burning74
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural7
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism3
Fireworks1

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
7 September 2000Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 486
6 September 1995Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2010Natural2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service026-10
26 September 2015Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7118
26 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest ServiceMAIN STREET
24 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceRITCHEY MULHOLLE
24 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceOCAR JOHNSON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rusk 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
New Salem2.5 miles11
Anadarko3.3 miles11
Glenfawn4.1 miles11
Reklaw4.3 miles11
Freeneytown4.5 miles11
McKnight6.7 miles13
Valley Grove7.0 miles11
Pleasant Grove7.7 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2034827. 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.