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Fairview, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Rock Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30557. It stands on Flat Creek. The Survey maps it on the Avalon quadrangle.

Fairview within Stephens County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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

289 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 289 fires within 5 miles of Fairview between 1992 and 2020, burning about 427 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 59 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 burning158
Arson/incendiarism59
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Equipment and vehicle use19
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Smoking6
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1

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
5 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2003Smoking1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-FRANKLIN-002
20 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2003Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stephens County

Storms near this place

3 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairview in 3 storm reports between 2018 and 2025: 3 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2025HailFairview-Public reported (via Social Media) mainly dime to nickel size hail, with a few stones up to quarter size.
March 2018HailFairview-Public reported (via Social Media) mostly dime-to-nickel sized hail with a few quarter sized stones northeast of Avalon.
June 2018HailFairview-Spotter reported ping pong ball size hail.

Every storm recorded in Stephens 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
Avalon3.0 miles18
Martin3.6 miles15
Fighting Pine4.9 miles18
Eastanollee5.2 miles17
Toms Creek5.9 miles15
Jarrett6.7 miles18
Union Hill6.9 miles17
Hayes Crossing7.1 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 327780. 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.

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.