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History · Fairview Township

39% of Fairview Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1924 on.

0on the National Register
39%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.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Fairview Township, and 2 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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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and places now gone

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

Proctorville
1868–1901
Catawba
1872–1905
18601940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
CatawbaProctorville
Gone or out of use
Locust Grove SchoolschoolUnity ChapelchurchVictory Schoolschool

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

The story

How Fairview Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Fairview Township.

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Fairview Township was established on November 4th, 1869, and named after a school of the same name within its borders.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Fairview Township, 1868 to 1924

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1868Post officeThe Proctorville post office opens
  3. 1872Post officeThe Catawba post office opens
  4. 20th century
  5. 1901Post officeThe Proctorville post office closes
  6. 1905Post officeThe Catawba post office closes
  7. 1924On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

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On the map

Fairview Township on the map, 1924 to 1984

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 1924 USGS mapFairview Township on the 1984 USGS map1924Braymer sheet · 1:62,500

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.

Famous people

Famous people close to Fairview Township

Nobody well known was born in Fairview Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Zack WheatAmerican baseball player · b. 1888
James Cash PenneyAmerican businessman · b. 1875
Jerry LittonAmerican politician · b. 1937
James KirkpatrickAmerican politician from Missouri · b. 1905
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Thomas Talbot WatermanU.S. anthropologist · b. 1885
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Herb ConyersAmerican baseball player · b. 1921
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Monroe TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townNew York TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townDavis TownshipIts storyB−Breckenridge TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWashington TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

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Sources

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 Wikipedia, 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.