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Fairview, Georgia

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Rossville-Beverly Hills census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30741. It lies near Missionary Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Fort Oglethorpe quadrangle. 6,409 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 850 feet above sea level.

Fairview within Walker County

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.

Fires near this place

301 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 301 fires within 5 miles of Fairview between 1992 and 2020, burning about 764 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 88 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 burning136
Arson/incendiarism88
Misuse of fire by a minor19
Equipment and vehicle use13
Recreation and ceremony12
Natural11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-WALKER-016
5 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-WALKER-014
5 September 1999Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresTennessee Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1993Debris and open burning2.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreChickamauga & Chattanooga National Military ParkHAY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walker County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Fairview: 7 past producers, 3 producers, 1 unknown, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Aluminum. 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
Bennett Mine No. 1AluminumPast Producer
Bennett No.2 ProspectAluminumProspect
Alton Park TractStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer1952
Alton Park TractClayPast ProducerSedimentary
Chatanooga MineClayUnknown
Dave L Brown QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
General Shale Georgia PitClayProducer
Rossville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hall Ore Bank AreaIronPast ProducerStrataform, Concordant
J.T. Algoods PropertyIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Walker County

Storms near this place

4 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairview in 4 storm reports between 2003 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 2020Thunderstorm WindFairview$50,000Several trees came down and caused damage to multiple parked vehicles in Fairview.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindFairview$3,000The Walker County 911 Center reported that up to five trees and one power line were down just north of Chickamauga in northern Walker county.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindFairview$1,000Tree down around the 900 block of Cherokee trail near Rossville.
March 2003HailFairview-The Walker county 911 center reported that they had received several reports of penny to nickel size hail.

Every storm recorded in Walker 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
Orchard Hills0.4 miles28
Dewberry Town0.6 miles28
Cannon Crossing0.6 miles28
Warren Terrace0.9 miles28
Park City0.9 miles28
South Rossville1.7 miles28
Beverly Hills1.8 miles28
Georgia Acres1.8 miles28

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.

Wikipedia article on FairviewAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q388674The 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 331690. 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.