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Fairview, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the Double Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35553. The Survey maps it on the Houston quadrangle.

Fairview within Winston 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

160 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 160 fires within 5 miles of Fairview between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,358 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 84 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
Arson/incendiarism84
Debris and open burning37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
7 September 1996Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNational Forests in AlabamaPINETUCKEY
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1995Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresNational Forests in AlabamaWILBURN FORD #2
4 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.2 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2000Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2000Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresNational Forests in AlabamaBRUSHY CREEK #2
23 September 2006Naturalunder an acreNational Forests in AlabamaMASHER BRANCH 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Winston 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
Robinson Bottoms (historical)2.2 miles11
Lakeshore2.3 miles11
Double Springs2.4 miles11
Corinth (historical)2.8 miles11
Barnett Chapel3.4 miles11
Sachs Bottoms (historical)3.8 miles11
Rock Creek4.1 miles11
Curtis Crossroads4.4 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 159586. 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.