Fairington, Georgia

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Gracewood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30815. The Survey maps it on the Augusta West quadrangle.

Fairington within Richmond County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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.

1922 USGS Hephzibah quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1948 USGS Hephzibah quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1950 USGS Augusta West quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Augusta West quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Hephzibah quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Thomson quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

681 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 681 fires within 5 miles of Fairington between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,824 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 368 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
Arson/incendiarism	368
Debris and open burning	169
Misuse of fire by a minor	59
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23
Equipment and vehicle use	21
Recreation and ceremony	17
Smoking	10
Natural	10
Railroad operations and maintenance	4

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 1993	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-RICHMOND-002
7 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-RICHMOND-013
7 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-RICHMOND-014
6 September 2019	Railroad operations and maintenance	5.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020RICHMOND005
6 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-RICHMOND-012

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Richmond County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Fairington: 11 producers, 6 occurrences, 2 past producers. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Kaolin, Brick Clay, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Bel Air Mine Ga Vitr Brick	Clay	Producer
Belair Pit	Brick Clay	Occurrence
Albion Kaolin Mine	Kaolin	Producer
Albion Kaolin Mine, Pit B	Kaolin	Producer
Albion Pit	Kaolin	Producer	1900
Barton-Chapel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Davis Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Dixon Airline Road Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Duffie Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Richmond 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
Quail Hollow	0.4 miles	20
Spanish Trace	0.6 miles	20
Town and Country	0.8 miles	19
Hidden Hills	0.9 miles	20
Rain Tree	1.2 miles	19
Sand Ridge	1.2 miles	20
Windsor Spring	1.3 miles	20
Woodlake	1.4 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 358125. 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.