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Fairview Hill, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Willard census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41143. It stands on Powell Creek. The Survey maps it on the Grayson quadrangle.

Fairview Hill within Carter County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

173 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 173 fires within 5 miles of Fairview Hill between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,616 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 33 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 burning68
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Arson/incendiarism33
Recreation and ceremony29
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
24 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 September 2007Recreation and ceremony8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 August 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 August 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 August 1999Arson/incendiarism35 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined75 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carter County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Fairview Hill: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Hitchens WorksClayProducer

Every working recorded in Carter 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
Hitchins0.2 miles15
Beech Grove1.6 miles15
Mount Savage2.0 miles15
Reedville2.4 miles15
Straight Creek2.5 miles15
Stinson2.8 miles15
Leon3.0 miles15
Davy Run (historical)3.2 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 491929. 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.