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Fairview, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Goodman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36453. It stands on Pond Branch. The Survey maps it on the Sellersville quadrangle.

Fairview within Coffee 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.

Fires near this place

32 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Fairview between 1994 and 2019, burning about 182 acres in total. 3 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 burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural3
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
13 September 2019Debris and open burning7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190913-6
7 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 August 2012Natural6.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20120815-001
9 July 2006Smokingunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 July 2010Debris and open burning3.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 July 2015Natural12 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20150729-001
29 July 2015Natural1.5 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20150729-002
14 July 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionHWY 87 , AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coffee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Fairview: 11 unknowns, 4 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Coffee County

Storms near this place

3 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairview in 3 storm reports in 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2020Thunderstorm WindFairview-Trees were blown down on County Road 474.
September 2020Flash FloodFairview-County Road 661 was impassable due to water crossing the roadway.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindFairview-A tree was blown down on Highway 87 South.

Every storm 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
Holley Store3.1 miles8
Ino3.5 miles8
Goodman3.9 miles11
Alberton5.1 miles8
Damascus6.1 miles8
Turner Crossroads6.3 miles11
Rhoades6.5 miles8
Perry Store6.6 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156333. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.