Featured City Fairfield

Photo: J. Stephen Conn, Flickr

As many as 300,000 snow geese and 10,000 tundra swans gather in March in this area.

Because of the immensity of the area and how dry it was, it was pretty sparce until 1909 when the federal government started allowing free 320-acre homesteads instead of the 160 that had previously been allowed. The smaller homesteads did not make sense. When the Gibson Dam was completed in 1929 it brought water to approximately 83,000 acres surrounding this community and it became well known for fertile crop lands. Fairfield is the self-proclaimed "Malting Barley Capital of the World".