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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1915 USGS Neshkoro quadrangle1:48000
- 1918 USGS Neshkoro quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Madison quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Neshkoro quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Fairburn quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Wisconsin Dells quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Wisconsin Dells quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
285 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 103 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 67 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 63 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 17 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 11 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 7 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 September 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 September 2003 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 5 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 4 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | LABOR DAY WEEKEND FIRE |
| 23 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2002Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2002 | Flash Flood | Fairburn | $10,000 | no account filed |
| March 2019 | Flood | Fairburn | $5,000 | Several 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 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairburn | $2,000 | Scattered branches and trees down. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Fairburn | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin | 5.0 miles | 10 | |
| Princeton | 9.4 miles | 14 | |
| Green Lake | 9.7 miles | 10 | |
| Sherwood Forest | 10.1 miles | 10 | |
| Pleasant Point | 10.7 miles | 10 | |
| Sandstone Bluff | 11.3 miles | 10 | |
| Sylvan Shores | 11.3 miles | 14 | |
| Tuleta Hills | 11.6 miles | 10 |
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 Fairburn | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5430046 | The 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.







