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Fairfield Estates, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Enterprise census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36330. The Survey maps it on the Goodman quadrangle.

Fairfield Estates within Coffee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

43 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Fairfield Estates between 1994 and 2017, burning about 160 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

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
30 September 1994Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2011Debris and open burning15 acresAlabama Forestry Commission11367 HWY 84, AL
30 August 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 August 2000Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 July 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20140703-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coffee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Fairfield Estates: 5 occurrences, 3 unknowns, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Gold. 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
Chinca-Pine MineGoldPast Producer
Eley MineGoldPast Producer
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
Unnamed DepositIronOccurrence
Unnamed DepositIronOccurrence
Unnamed DepositIronOccurrence
Unnamed MineIronOccurrence
Unnamed MineIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Coffee 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
Willow Bend1.0 miles12
Pine Forest1.2 miles11
Griffin Heights1.3 miles12
North Heights1.4 miles12
Hillcrest1.5 miles12
Enterprise1.6 miles12
Oak Ridge1.7 miles12
Shell Heights2.0 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 155753. 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.