Fairfield Lakes, Georgia

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Stockbridge census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30294. The Survey maps it on the Southeast Atlanta quadrangle.

Fairfield Lakes within Henry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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.

1888 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:125000
1890 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:125000
1895 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Conley quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Southeast Atlanta quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Southeast Atlanta quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

111 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Fairfield Lakes between 1992 and 2020, burning about 406 acres in total. None started naturally. 28 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	51
Arson/incendiarism	28
Misuse of fire by a minor	17
Recreation and ceremony	8
Smoking	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
7 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-CLAYTON-002
6 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-CLAYTON-001
23 September 2020	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021HENRY001
24 August 1996	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 1995	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021CLAYTON001
24 July 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henry 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
Creek Cove	0.5 miles	23
Fairview Station	1.0 miles	18
Panola Woods	1.3 miles	23
Ash Manor	1.3 miles	21
Fay (historical)	1.4 miles	18
Country Pine Estates	1.4 miles	21
Belmount Farms	1.4 miles	18
Palisades Estates	1.4 miles	21

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.

Wikidata item Q122563509

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 1671865. 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.