Fairview, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Castleberry census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36401. It stands on Cane Creek. The Survey maps it on the Belleville quadrangle.

Fairview within Conecuh County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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 Belleville quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Atmore quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

149 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 149 fires within 5 miles of Fairview between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,482 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 22 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
Debris and open burning	49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	42
Arson/incendiarism	22
Recreation and ceremony	13
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Natural	2
Fireworks	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
22 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	30 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20150804-002
25 August 2002	Natural	1.8 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Conecuh County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Fairview: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Con 5 Clay Prospect	Clay	Prospect

Every working recorded in Conecuh 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
Evergreen	2.7 miles	7
Old Sparta	4.0 miles	7
Jay Villa	4.9 miles	7
Belleville	5.6 miles	7
Owassa	6.4 miles	7
Loree	6.5 miles	7
Brownville	6.5 miles	7
Nymph	6.6 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 118127. 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.