Fairview, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Palatka census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32177. It stands on Fish Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hastings quadrangle.

Fairview within Putnam County

Then and now

1912 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 69 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fairview, surveyed 1981

Topographic sheet of Fairview, surveyed 1912

Compare 1912 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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.

1912 USGS Palatka quadrangle1:48000
1915 USGS Palatka quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1954 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Hastings quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Saint Augustine quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

197 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 197 fires within 5 miles of Fairview between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,117 acres in total. 58 started naturally. 20 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
Natural	58
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	38
Debris and open burning	28
Equipment and vehicle use	22
Arson/incendiarism	20
Railroad operations and maintenance	15
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	1
Other causes	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
28 September 2018	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	BRIDGEPORT RD (54)
20 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
19 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	PALMETTO(54)
19 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	PUTNAM/MILLICAN RD FIRE
18 September 2016	Natural	49 acres	Florida Forest Service	FOREST CREEK 2 (54)
14 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	PUTNAM/RUN AWAY FIRE
9 August 2000	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
9 August 1995	Natural	20 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Putnam 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
Cypress Point	1.7 miles	16
Grandview	1.8 miles	16
Patersonville	2.3 miles	16
Bridgeport	2.3 miles	13
Orange Mills	2.5 miles	16
Federal Point	2.6 miles	16
Teasdale	3.7 miles	17
Clay Landing	3.8 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 300886. 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.