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Fairchild, Georgia

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Steam Mill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39845. The Survey maps it on the Fairchild quadrangle.

Fairchild within Seminole County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

262 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 262 fires within 5 miles of Fairchild between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,316 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 37 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 burning173
Arson/incendiarism37
Equipment and vehicle use21
Smoking11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural2

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 2010Debris and open burning3.2 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-SEMINOLE-002
25 September 2016Natural88 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-SEMINOLE-002
25 September 2004Debris and open burning1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020SEMINOLE007
17 September 1997Debris and open burning6.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2019Debris and open burning5.7 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020SEMINOLE005

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Seminole 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 Fairchild: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Unnamed Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Storms near this place

7 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairchild in 7 storm reports between 2008 and 2022: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
October 2008Thunderstorm WindFairchild$50,000Straight line winds estimated between 60 and 70 mph damaged two vacant homes near Seminole State Park. Several trees were uprooted.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindFairchild$1,000A few trees and power lines were down.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindFairchild-A tree was blown down along Highway 374 just north of Highway 253.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindFairchild-A tree was blown down on Paradise Dr.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindFairchild-A tree was blown down on Parkside Circle.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindFairchild-A tree was blown down on Highway 39 South.
April 2009Flash FloodFairchild-High water closed a portion of State Highway 39 two miles north of State Highway 253.

Every storm recorded in Seminole 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
Paradise Acres1.5 miles13
Desser4.8 miles12
Reynoldsville7.2 miles13
Steam Mill10.6 miles13
Lela11.2 miles12
Riverturn11.6 miles13
Neals Landing11.8 miles13
Little Hope13.0 miles8

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on FairchildAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q54888760The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 355752. 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.

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.