BlockFairview, Wyoming
5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Newcastle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 82701. The Survey maps it on the Fairview quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 5 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.
- 1955 USGS Newcastle quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Newcastle quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Newcastle quadrangle1:100000
- 1982 USGS Fairview quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
16 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Fairview between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,536 acres in total. 11 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2010 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 137 acres | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | TEXAS TRAIL FIRE |
| 10 September 2012 | Natural | 12 acres | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | ELLIOTT FIRE |
| 27 August 1999 | Natural | 297 acres | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | WILLIAMS |
| 27 August 1999 | Natural | 18 acres | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | HAYWARD |
| 16 August 1994 | Natural | 409 acres | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | ADKINS |
| 16 August 1994 | Natural | 7,150 acres | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | PETERSON-ELLIOTT |
| 15 August 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 150 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 1 August 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | HOWARD FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1599652. 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.