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Fairview, Alabama

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Russellville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35654. The Survey maps it on the Russellville quadrangle.

Fairview within Franklin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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

162 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 162 fires within 5 miles of Fairview between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,426 acres in total. None started naturally. 53 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 burning58
Arson/incendiarism53
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Equipment and vehicle use7
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking2
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 September 2010Arson/incendiarism23 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2010Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190921-7
21 September 2010Debris and open burning25 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 105 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 105 workings within 5 miles of Fairview: 86 unknowns, 16 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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
DebardelebenIronUnknown
Pearl R Peters Iron Mine No 2IronPast Producer
Russellville Brown Iron Ore MinesIronPast Producer1818, 1974
Russellville MineIronProducer
SewaneeIronUnknown
Sloss Number 10IronUnknown
Sloss Number 11IronUnknown
Sloss Number 14IronUnknown
Sloss Number 2IronUnknown
Sloss Number 3IronUnknown

Every working recorded in Franklin 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
Hester Heights1.6 miles20
Jonesboro1.8 miles19
Woodlawn Heights2.1 miles20
Good Springs2.1 miles20
Russellville3.7 miles20
Mountain Star4.2 miles20
Pleasant Ridge4.4 miles20
Reedtown4.5 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156338. 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.