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Fairburn, Wisconsin

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Seneca town. It lies in ZIP code area 54923. The Survey maps it on the Fairburn quadrangle. It stands 781 feet above sea level.

Fairburn within Green Lake County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

285 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 285 fires within 5 miles of Fairburn between 1992 and 2020, burning about 717 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 17 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 burning103
Missing data/not specified/undetermined67
Equipment and vehicle use63
Arson/incendiarism17
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural4
Fireworks3

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 2003Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 September 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 September 2003Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
4 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesLABOR DAY WEEKEND FIRE
23 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Green Lake County

Storms near this place

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairburn in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2019: 1 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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
June 2002Flash FloodFairburn$10,000no account filed
March 2019FloodFairburn$5,000Several county roads were closed due to the flooding of creeks, rivers, and lowlands. These roads were located near the villages of Dalton and Kingston, and near Utley and in the Township of Berlin. State highway 23 had a partial lane closure due to flooding between Princeton and Green Lake.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindFairburn$2,000Scattered branches and trees down.
May 2017HailFairburn-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Green Lake 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
Berlin5.0 miles10
Princeton9.4 miles14
Green Lake9.7 miles10
Sherwood Forest10.1 miles10
Pleasant Point10.7 miles10
Sandstone Bluff11.3 miles10
Sylvan Shores11.3 miles14
Tuleta Hills11.6 miles10

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 FairburnAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5430046The 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 1564802. 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.