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Fairview, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Geraldine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35963. It stands on Laurel Creek. The Survey maps it on the Crossville quadrangle.

Fairview within DeKalb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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

103 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Fairview between 2000 and 2019, burning about 1,518 acres in total. None started naturally. 32 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 burning33
Arson/incendiarism32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Equipment and vehicle use5
Fireworks2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Other causes1

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
9 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190909-2
8 September 2002Debris and open burning42 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20180903-3
29 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190929-20
28 September 2016Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160928-21
24 September 2019Debris and open burning6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190924-22
23 September 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190918-21

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeKalb County

Storms near this place

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairview in 3 storm reports between 2003 and 2023: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2023Thunderstorm WindFairview$500A tree was knocked down near Dawson at the intersection of CR 199 and CR 196.
June 2013HailFairview-Quarter sized hail was reported.
March 2003HailFairview-Penny size hail reported.

Every storm recorded in DeKalb 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
Wills (historical)1.2 miles21
Gilbert Crossroads1.7 miles21
Ophir1.8 miles21
Nicholson (historical)2.0 miles21
Dawson2.4 miles21
Skirum2.4 miles21
Floy (historical)2.9 miles21
Clyde (historical)3.5 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156337. 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.

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.