BlockFairfield, Georgia
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Covington-Porterdale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30014. The Survey maps it on the Covington quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1896 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Covington quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1980 USGS Athens quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
263 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 263 fires within 5 miles of Fairfield between 1992 and 2019, burning about 535 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 36 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 | 102 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 36 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 32 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 23 |
| Smoking | 18 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 16 |
| Natural | 16 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 10 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 10 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2002 | Smoking | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2003-NEWTON-007 |
| 5 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 8.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2002-NEWTON-003 |
| 27 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-NEWTON-003 |
| 19 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 September 1993 | Smoking | 6.7 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 13 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Fairfield: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oxford Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
5 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairfield in 5 storm reports between 2013 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2020 | Hail | Fairfield | $1,000,000 | The public reported hail ranging from the size of nickels to the size of golf balls at the intersection of Highway 278 and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, damaging at least 1 vehicle. |
| February 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairfield | $25,000 | The Newton County Emergency Manager reported numerous trees down from Covington Bypass to Henderson Mill Road, southeast of Covington. Several trees were either snapped or uprooted between S. Dearing Street and Vintage Drive. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairfield | $3,000 | The Newton County 911 center reported trees blown down around the intersection of the Covington Bypass and Highway 36 and the intersection of Elks Club Road and Glengarry Chase. |
| October 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairfield | $1,000 | The Newton County 911 center reported two trees blown down on Dearing Street between Conyers Street and Plantation Trace in southeast Covington. |
| April 2013 | Hail | Fairfield | - | The public reported quarter sized hail in Covington. |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1673472. 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.