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Historic site
Fairview, Nevada
Coordinates39°15′59″N 118°11′51″W / 39.26639°N 118.19750°W / 39.26639; -118.19750
Nevada Historical Marker
Reference no.202
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Fairview is a ghost town in Churchill County, Nevada, in the United States.

History

Discovery of silver in the area in 1905 led to several claims and the creation of a boom town in 1906. Some of the first mining claims were bought by George Nixon and George Wingfield, which helped drive the boom. The community took its name from Fairview Peak. Fairview changed locations twice, once to move closer to the mines and mills in which the town's residents worked, and once because the town outgrew the narrow canyon in which the second town was sited.

From 1906 to 1907, the mining camp's population expanded dramatically. Fairview had multiple hotels, banks, assay offices, 27 saloons, a newspaper, post office, a union hall and a population of 2000. After 1908, outside interest in the mining camps and town declined, and the newspaper closed. The town stayed prosperous until 1912, and afterwards was abandoned.

Fairview had a post office from April 1906 through May 1919. Fairview appears on maps as a stop or station for the Pony Express. The location of the station is about 5.7 mile north of the site of Fairview.

Fairview is currently a ghost town. One of the few remnants of the old town is the bank vault from the first town site's bank; the vault can be seen from the nearby Austin-Lincoln Highway.

1954 earthquakes

A very large earthquake doublet occurred on December 16, 1954. The Dixie Valley/Fairview earthquakes occurred four minutes apart, each with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). The initial shock measured 7.3 Mw  and the second shock measured 6.9 Mw . Damage to man-made structures was minimal because the region was sparsely populated at the time, but oblique-slip motion on a normal fault resulted in the appearance of large fault scarps.

Gallery

  • Churchill county map, 1910 Churchill county map, 1910
  • Transporting ore by wagon, Fairview, c 1906 Transporting ore by wagon, Fairview, c 1906
  • Prospectors examining mine near Fairview, c 1906 Prospectors examining mine near Fairview, c 1906
  • Fairview mine visitors, c 1906 Fairview mine visitors, c 1906
  • Fairview a stop on the Pony Express route Fairview a stop on the Pony Express route
  • Fault scarp near Fairview Peak, Nev., resulting from the earthquake of December 16, 1954. (Photograph by Hugo Benioff.) Fault scarp near Fairview Peak, Nev., resulting from the earthquake of December 16, 1954. (Photograph by Hugo Benioff.)

References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Fairview
  2. ^ "Nevada Historical Markers". Nevada State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved April 28, 2020.
  3. Federal Writers' Project (1941). Origin of Place Names: Nevada (PDF). W.P.A. p. 11.
  4. ^ ghosttowns.com. "Fairview". Retrieved March 21, 2013.
  5. Paher, Stanley W (1970). Nevada Ghost towns and mining camps. Howell North. pp. 96–99.
  6. Our Public Lands. Vol. 21–26. Bureau of Land Management. 1971. Retrieved April 28, 2020.
  7. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Fairview Post Office (historical)
  8. Carlson, Helen S. (1985). Nevada place names : a geographical dictionary. Reno: University of Nevada Press. p. 111. ISBN 978-0874170948.
  9. "Pony Express Map William Henry Jackson.jpg". 1951.
  10. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Fairview Station (historical)
  11. Stover, C.W.; Coffman, J.L. (1993), Seismicity of the United States, 1568–1989 (Revised), U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1527, United States Government Printing Office, pp. 287, 288, 295, 296
  12. ^ von Hake, Carl A. (November–December 1974). "Earthquake History of Nevada". Earthquake Information Bulletin. 4. United States Geological Survey: 4. hdl:2027/uc1.b4383833. Retrieved April 29, 2020.

External links

  • Fairview – text and photos. (forgottennevada.com)

Further reading

Municipalities and communities of Churchill County, Nevada, United States
County seat: Fallon
City
Churchill County map
CDP
Unincorporated
communities
Indian reservations
Ghost towns

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