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Fairview, Georgia

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Vesta-Enterprise census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30627. The Survey maps it on the Vesta quadrangle.

Fairview within Oglethorpe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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.

Fires near this place

180 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 180 fires within 5 miles of Fairview between 1992 and 2020, burning about 978 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 31 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 burning85
Arson/incendiarism31
Equipment and vehicle use25
Natural14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Smoking3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-OGLETHORPE-008
21 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.6 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-OGLETHORPE-007
20 September 1997Recreation and ceremony1.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-OGLETHORPE-006
18 September 2006Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-OGLETHORPE-011

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oglethorpe County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Fairview: 16 producers, 8 past producers. 16 still produce. What was taken out: Granite, Stone, Dimension, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Paulding County MineStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Coggins Millstone QuarryStone, DimensionProducer
Galaxy Satin Blue QuarryStone, DimensionProducer
Bennie and Harvey QuarryGraniteProducer
Briarpatch QuarryGranitePast Producer
Galaxy Blue QuarryGraniteProducer
Grimes Brothers Quarry No. 2GranitePast Producer
Grimes Brothers Quarry No. 3GraniteProducer
Grimes QuarryGranitePast Producer
Harmony Blue MillGraniteProducer

Every working recorded in Oglethorpe 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Enterprise0.6 miles13
Veribest1.8 miles13
Vesta2.0 miles13
Palmetto2.9 miles13
Sycorax (historical)4.7 miles13
Anon (historical)4.9 miles12
Point Peter5.0 miles11
Wise (historical)5.2 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 335750. 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.