Fairfield, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Andalusia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36421. It stands on Gafford Creek. The Survey maps it on the Loango quadrangle. It stands 190 feet above sea level.

Fairfield within Covington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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.

1953 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Loango quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

74 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Fairfield between 1995 and 2020, burning about 580 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 8 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24
Debris and open burning	19
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Arson/incendiarism	8
Recreation and ceremony	6
Natural	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
24 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	ZELL READY RD, AL
21 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1995	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2007	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	3.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	3.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	2.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Covington 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Beck	3.2 miles	8
Loango	5.4 miles	8
Carolina	6.3 miles	8
Rome	7.7 miles	9
Montezuma (historical)	8.0 miles	8
River Falls	9.0 miles	8
Andalusia	9.4 miles	8
Libertyville	9.8 miles	7

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 Fairfield	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22058452	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 118112. 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.