Fairlawn Acres, Georgia

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Fort Oglethorpe-Lakeview census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30742. The Survey maps it on the Fort Oglethorpe quadrangle.

Fairlawn Acres within Catoosa County

On record in Fairlawn Acres

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Fort Oglethorpe Historic Districtlisted 1979 · 0.5 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 28 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.

1886 USGS Ringgold quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Catoosa quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1892 USGS Ringgold quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1936 USGS Fort Oglethorpe quadrangle1:24000
1942 USGS Fort Oglethorpe quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Fort Oglethorpe quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Fort Oglethorpe quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Chickamauga quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Fort Oglethorpe quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

317 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 317 fires within 5 miles of Fairlawn Acres between 1992 and 2020, burning about 644 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 71 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	151
Arson/incendiarism	71
Equipment and vehicle use	24
Misuse of fire by a minor	21
Smoking	13
Natural	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Recreation and ceremony	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
8 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-WALKER-016
6 September 2002	Debris and open burning	2.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-CATOOSA-007
5 September 1993	Debris and open burning	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1993	Debris and open burning	2.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Catoosa County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Fairlawn Acres: 4 past producers, 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Aluminum, 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
General Shale Georgia Pit	Clay	Producer
Bennett Mine No. 1	Aluminum	Past Producer
Bennett No.2 Prospect	Aluminum	Prospect
Dave L Brown Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Hall Ore Bank Area	Iron	Past Producer	Strataform, Concordant
Mcfarland Mine	Iron	Past Producer	Strataform, Concordant
Rossville Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Catoosa 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
Fort Oglethorpe	0.3 miles	28
Old Fort Estates	0.9 miles	28
Cloud Springs	1.2 miles	28
McDonald Acres	1.2 miles	28
Midway	1.2 miles	28
Dallondale	1.2 miles	28
Green Acres	1.2 miles	28
Pinewood Estates	1.6 miles	28

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 Q122570812

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 331687. 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.