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History · Fairview Township

Half of Fairview Township’s homes were built after 1996

Most of Fairview Township was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1996. Below: maps from 1889 on.

0on the National Register
0.0%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Fairview Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Fairview Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 18894 editions of the USGS map, 1889 to 1985. Watch Fairview Township change.Lost villages3 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Fairview Township, and 1 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Fairview Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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On the map

Fairview Township on the map, 1889 to 1985

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Fairview Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Fairview Township on the 1889 USGS mapFairview Township on the 1965 USGS mapFairview Township on the 1979 USGS mapFairview Township on the 1985 USGS map1889Burden sheet · 1:125,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Fairview Township.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Three other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Lone Tree
1870–1872
Little Dutch
1872–1882
Akron
1882–1912
18701950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Akron
Gone or out of use
Deichman Oil FieldoilfieldGrand View ChurchchurchGrand View SchoolschoolHittle Oil FieldoilfieldMount Carmel SchoolschoolPrairie Grove SchoolschoolValley Center SchoolschoolWilmot Floral Oil Fieldoilfield
1cemetery inside Fairview Township
Akron

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

The story so far

Fairview Township, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Fairview Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Fairview Township is a township in Cowley County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 281.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 248 to 281 (+13%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Fairview Township, 1870 to 1912

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1870Post officeThe Lone Tree post office opens
  3. 1872Post officeThe Lone Tree post office closes
  4. 1872Post officeThe Little Dutch post office opens
  5. 1882Post officeThe Little Dutch post office closes
  6. 1882Post officeThe Akron post office opens
  7. 1889On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  8. 20th century
  9. 1912Post officeThe Akron post office closes
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Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Salem TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townRock Creek Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townNinnescah TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWalnut TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townRichland TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.