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Fairview, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Saxton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40769. It stands on Mud Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jellico East quadrangle.

Fairview within Whitley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

186 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 186 fires within 5 miles of Fairview between 1995 and 2020, burning about 14,891 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 78 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
Arson/incendiarism78
Debris and open burning55
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Recreation and ceremony6
Other causes1
Natural1
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
28 September 2016Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTennessee Division of Forestry10 MILE MARKER/25W
28 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTennessee Division of Forestrynot named
29 May 2007Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 May 2013Arson/incendiarism700 acresTennessee Division of ForestryHIGH CLIFF
9 April 2013Debris and open burning311 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCANE GAP FIRE
9 April 2009Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Whitley County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Fairview: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Jellico Stone Co. QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Jellico Stone Company QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Whitley County

Storms near this place

2 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairview in 2 storm reports between 1996 and 2008: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
March 2008Thunderstorm WindFairview$1,000A tree was blown down near Interstate 75.
May 1996HailFairview-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Whitley 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
Red Ash1.3 miles17
Lot1.3 miles17
Saxton2.3 miles15
Red Ash Coal Camp (historical)3.1 miles16
Mountain Ash4.1 miles15
Pleasant View5.4 miles15
Packard5.5 miles15
Ayers6.6 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 512108. 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.