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Fairfield, Georgia

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the West Dougherty census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31721. The Survey maps it on the Albany West quadrangle.

Fairfield within Dougherty County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

240 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 240 fires within 5 miles of Fairfield between 1992 and 2020, burning about 595 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 50 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 burning112
Arson/incendiarism50
Misuse of fire by a minor34
Equipment and vehicle use20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2
Smoking1

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 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2010Debris and open burning17 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-LEE-004
27 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dougherty 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
Plantation Hills0.3 miles13
Westhampton0.5 miles13
Pointe North0.6 miles13
Saint Andrews0.8 miles13
Woodbridge0.9 miles13
Dawson Heights0.9 miles13
Brentwood1.0 miles13
Westgate1.0 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1671095. 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.