Fairfax, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Waresboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31552. The Survey maps it on the Talmo quadrangle.

Fairfax within Ware County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1953 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1971 USGS Talmo quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

187 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 187 fires within 5 miles of Fairfax between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,344 acres in total. 33 started naturally. 15 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 burning	96
Natural	33
Equipment and vehicle use	20
Arson/incendiarism	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Recreation and ceremony	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	5

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
9 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-WARE-002
9 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-WARE-003
30 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-WARE-010
26 September 2006	Misuse of fire by a minor	24 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2006	Debris and open burning	7.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2019	Debris and open burning	4.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020WARE011
17 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ware 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 Fairfax: 1 occurrence. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unnamed Sand Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Alluvium

Every working recorded in Ware County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairfax in 1 storm report in 2016: 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairfax	$500	A tree was blown down and blocked Manor Millwood Road. The time of damage was based on radar. The cost of damage was estimated for the event to be included in StormData.

Every storm recorded in Ware 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
Hasty	1.9 miles	8
Millwood	2.8 miles	7
Sappville	3.5 miles	8
Viviani	3.9 miles	8
Talmo	4.2 miles	8
Crews Crossing	5.2 miles	8
Pine Valley	6.2 miles	8
Hinson Crossing	6.8 miles	8

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 Fairfax	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q54888761	The 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 314035. 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.