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Fairview, Wisconsin

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Utica town. It lies in ZIP code area 54628. It lies near Boma Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Mount Sterling quadrangle. It stands 1,207 feet above sea level.

Fairview within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 10 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

51 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Fairview between 1992 and 2019, burning about 122 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning32
Equipment and vehicle use10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1

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
24 July 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesB AND C FIRE
11 July 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
19 June 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
22 May 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesNO TILL FIRE
2 May 2009Debris and open burning4.9 acresWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesTURKEY RIDGE FIRE
2 May 1996Debris and open burning12 acresWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
12 May 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 May 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Fairview: 1 occurrence, 1 producer, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Cain QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Fairview QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mount Sterling ProspectCopperOccurrence
Mount Sterling ProspectCopperUnknown

Every working recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

3 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairview in 3 storm reports between 2007 and 2009: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
July 2009Tornado (EF1)Fairview$30,000Initial reports suggested seeing debris flying in the air. The tornado formed near a ridge area but traveled into nearby valleys hitting several farms and knocking down trees and branches in a narrow path. Hail was observed before the tornado as well.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindFairview$10,000Trees were blown down.
July 2007HailFairview-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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
Rising Sun3.5 miles10
Mount Sterling3.7 miles10
Towerville3.9 miles10
Johnstown4.6 miles10
Reed5.1 miles18
Pine Knob6.1 miles10
Gays Mills6.3 miles10
Seneca7.2 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 FairviewAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5430772The 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 1564811. 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.