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Fairfield, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the McDaniels-Hudson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40144. It lies near Ivory Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Custer quadrangle.

Fairfield within Breckinridge County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

25 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Fairfield between 1998 and 2018, burning about 296 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Recreation and ceremony4
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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 1999Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 1999Smoking13 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 August 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2012Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHWY 1073

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Breckinridge County

Storms near this place

3 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairfield in 3 storm reports between 2018 and 2023: 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
January 2023Flash FloodFairfield-Water was observed over the roadway on Hudson Fairfield Road.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindFairfield-There was a report of a roof blown off of a home south of Custer.
November 2018FloodFairfield-Fairfield-Hudson Road was closed due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Breckinridge 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
Hudson1.5 miles11
Buras2.6 miles11
Constantine2.7 miles18
Centerview3.0 miles11
Mook3.4 miles11
Dyer4.2 miles18
Custer4.9 miles11
Se Ree5.0 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507969. 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.