Fay, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Stockbridge census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30294. The Survey maps it on the Stockbridge quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Fay within Henry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1888 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:125000
1890 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:125000
1895 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Stockbridge quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

135 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 135 fires within 5 miles of Fay (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 489 acres in total. None started naturally. 22 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	71
Misuse of fire by a minor	24
Arson/incendiarism	22
Recreation and ceremony	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Smoking	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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
7 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-CLAYTON-002
23 September 2020	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021HENRY001
24 August 1996	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 1995	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 August 1993	Debris and open burning	2.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021CLAYTON001
23 July 1993	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henry 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
Fairfield Glen	0.4 miles	18
Panola Woods	0.5 miles	23
Fairview Station	0.5 miles	18
Autumn Chase	0.7 miles	18
Strawberry Hills	0.7 miles	23
Belmount Farms	0.7 miles	18
Creek Cove	1.1 miles	23
Scarbrough Cross Roads	1.1 miles	23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1705020. 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.