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Fairview, Utah

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Mount Pleasant-Moroni census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84629. It stands on Cottonwood Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fairview quadrangle. 1,203 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,948 feet above sea level.

Fairview within Sanpete County

On record in Fairview

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 5 records

Population over time

2 figures

Fairview fell from 1,247 to 1,203 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,247
20201,203-44 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

53 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Fairview between 1994 and 2020, burning about 153 acres in total. 12 started naturally. None was 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/undetermined19
Natural12
Debris and open burning11
Equipment and vehicle use5
Other causes2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
6 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsJUNK YARD
5 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined75 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSKYLINE MTN
26 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresCentral AreaMOUNTAINVILLE
26 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Landsnot named
17 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsDUNG HILL FIRE
15 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined27 acresRichfield Field OfficeFAIRVIEW CANYON
8 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.2 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands2020
5 August 2018Naturalunder an acreRichfield Field OfficeLAKE FORK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sanpete County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Fairview: 7 past producers, 3 producers, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. 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
Cemetery Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Round Hills Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Utah Dept Highways Pit No.20003Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Utah Dept. Highways Pit #20003Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerGravel
Utah Dept. Highways Pit #20005Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerGravel, Sand
Utah Dept.Highways Pit No.20005Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Utah Dept.Highways Pit No.20007Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Utah Dept.Highways Pit No.20008Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Utah Dept.Highways Pit No.20009Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Utah Dept.Highways Pit No.20010Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sanpete County

Storms near this place

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairview in 2 storm reports in 2001: 1 tornado, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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
June 2001LightningFairview1 hurtA 26-year old man was struck by lightning while golfing at a course near Fairview. A medical helicopter transported him to a hospital in Salt Lake City. The lightning bolt reportedly went in through his head and out through his hip. He was treated and later released.
August 2001Tornado (F0)Fairview-A spotter reported a tornado just west of Highway 89 between Fairview and Birdseye. The tornado lasted about 10 minutes and remained over open country.

Every storm recorded in Sanpete 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
Oak Creek3.3 miles16
Milburn5.4 miles16
Mount Pleasant5.5 miles16
Hill Top6.3 miles16
Beaver Dams Summer Homes Area8.0 miles17
Fountain Green10.4 miles18
Spring City10.4 miles16
Moroni10.6 miles18

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 Q482388The 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 1440983. 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.

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.