Fairview, South Carolina

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Walhalla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29696. It stands on Dodgens Creek. The Survey maps it on the Seneca quadrangle.

Fairview within Oconee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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 Pickens quadrangle1:125000
1894 USGS Pickens quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Seneca quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

127 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 127 fires within 5 miles of Fairview between 1992 and 2020, burning about 342 acres in total. None started naturally. 16 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/undetermined	45
Debris and open burning	40
Arson/incendiarism	16
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Recreation and ceremony	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	2
Fireworks	1
Other causes	1

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
30 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1999	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
15 August 2007	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
5 July 2011	Fireworks	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
27 July 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oconee 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: 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Talc-Soapstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Keith Deposit	Mica	Occurrence
	Unnamed Talc Prospect	Talc-Soapstone	Prospect

Every working recorded in Oconee 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
Sunset Shores	0.6 miles	16
George Martin Acres	0.7 miles	16
Hampton Shores	0.8 miles	16
Lakeside Estates	1.0 miles	16
Fairview Shores	1.2 miles	16
White Harbor	1.2 miles	16
Eleven Oaks	1.2 miles	16
Clovis Point	1.2 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1231273. 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.