Fairview, Georgia

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the West Jackson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30567. It stands on Lott Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pendergrass quadrangle.

Fairview within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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.

1891 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Pendergrass quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS Commerce quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

166 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 166 fires within 5 miles of Fairview between 1992 and 2017, burning about 506 acres in total. 4 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	87
Arson/incendiarism	36
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Smoking	6
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	3

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 1996	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	11 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2016	Debris and open burning	8.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-JACKSON-003
25 September 2012	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2013-HALL-002
22 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-JACKSON-004
21 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-JACKSON-003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Fairview: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. 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
	Gainsville Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
	Hall County Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Storms near this place

3 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairview in 3 storm reports between 2017 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 death. 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
March 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairview	1 killed, $100,000	The Jackson County Emergency Manager reported numerous trees and power lines blown down across the far western portion of the county. Trees were snapped at Guy Cooper Road and Highway 60. A tree fell onto a building and the roof was blow off of the building along Highway 332 east of Braselton. On Cambridge Farm Road in Hoschton, a tree fell onto a house killing a 29 year old man inside.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairview	$12,000	The public reported trees blown down between Braselton and Pendergrass, including one on a home near the intersection of Highway 124 and Highway 332.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Fairview	$9,000	The Jackson County Emergency Manager reported several trees blown down across the northern portion of the county from near Pendergrass and Talmo to southwest of Maysville. Trees were down on Talmo Trail, Murphy Road, Cottage Loop Road, Old Gainesville Road, Dry Pond Road, Deadwyler Road and Plainview Road.

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Thurmack	0.8 miles	12
Goochville	1.8 miles	15
Talmo	1.8 miles	12
Ednaville	2.9 miles	15
Pendergrass	3.4 miles	12
Pond Fork (historical)	3.8 miles	12
Braselton	4.0 miles	15
Hoschton	4.8 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 349451. 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.