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Fairview’s post office opened in 1937, and 1 of its places is on the National Register

More historic than 15% of U.S. towns · #153 of 177 in Tennessee. What drives it

Most of Fairview was built recently: 3% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1997. Its Register listing is the Triangle School. Below: maps from 1951 on and the census since 1960.

1937first post office
1on the National Register
3%homes built before 1940
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Quick answers

How Fairview began

When was Fairview founded?

1937

The Fairview post office opened in 1937, the earliest record of the town by name. Wikidata gives 1959. Two smaller post offices, Barren (1839) and Jingo (1880), opened inside today’s city and later closed.

First census: 1,017 in 19602020 census: 9,35789 years

How historic is Fairview?

D

More historic than 15% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.

What drives the grade ↓
Founding year: the first Fairview post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Wikidata: 1959.The full story ↓
History grade

What drives Fairview’s History grade

On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Fairview is more historic than 15% of U.S. towns, #153 of 177 in Tennessee. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its age pulls it down.

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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Fairview’s overall grade.
Founding era1937, from the first post office: founded 1900–1944, an older era than 9% of U.S. townsDHomes built before 19402.7% of homes (±1.6) · typical TN town 4.9% · U.S. 8.4%C−National Register1 listing, 1.0 per 10,000 residents · typical TN town 6.1 · U.S. 2.4C+
All U.S. towns we grade (21,289)Ahead of 15%
NewerOlder
Tennessee towns of 2,500+ (177)Ahead of 14%

Tennessee towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical Tennessee town has 6.1 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Fairview’s 1.0 sits below most of its state (34% of Tennessee towns have fewer) while its 1 listings outnumber those of 51% of U.S. towns.

How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from D to C−. The pre-1940 share (±1.6 points) is firm at this size. The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date; Wikidata gives 1959.

Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →

What stands out about Fairview’s past

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

Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Fairview, and 16 old place names are still on the map.A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Fairview are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
★ What stands out · Places that used to be

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

Fairview’s post office has been open since 1937. Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Barren
1839–1870
Jingo
1880–1937
Fairview
1937–today
18301930today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Chester EstatesClement Lake EstatesFairview HeightsGlenhavenGreen ValleyHallview MeadowsKenny BrookLake RoadLakeview EstatesLone OakLorilandMeadowwood AcresNew HopeOak TreeRolling AcresValley Green Estates
Gone or out of use
New Hope Schoolschool
8cemeteries and burying grounds inside Fairview
ChesterHarrisonHughesLampleyMangrumMangrumPinkertonWright

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

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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Fairview’s history is told.

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The story

How Fairview came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Fairview.

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Fairview was incorporated on July 28, 1959, under the Uniform City Manager-Commission Charter as set out in the Tennessee Code Annotated. Fairview city limits are located about one mile (1.6 km) southwest from the Nashville-Davidson County line and has two interstates passing through it (I-40 & I-840). With an average elevation of 800 feet (240 m) above sea level, Fairview is about 150 feet (46 m) higher than Nashville and surrounding suburbs, which gives Fairview the advantage of being less flood prone.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Fairview, 1839 to 1951

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1839Post officeThe Barren post office opens
  3. 1870Post officeThe Barren post office closes
  4. 1880Post officeThe Jingo post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1937Post officeThe Jingo post office closes
  7. 1937Post officeThe Fairview post office opens
  8. 1951On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Fairview, decade by decade

Today9 recent
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On the map

Fairview on the map, 1951 to 1980

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

Fairview on the 1951 USGS mapFairview on the 1980 USGS map1951Fairview sheet · 1:24,000

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

On the National Register

1 historic place in Fairview

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
2007
Triangle School
Triangle School
Buildings
Triangle SchoolBuilding

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

People over time

Fairview, census by census

02,0004,0006,0008,00010,00019601980200020209,357

Grew from 1,017 people in 1960 to 9,357 in 2020, 9 times over.

7 censuses, 1960–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Fairview’s Wikipedia page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Fairview

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

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Miley CyrusAmerican singer, actress, and television person… · b. 1992
Oscar RobertsonAmerican basketball player · b. 1938
Luke BenwardAmerican actor · b. 1995
Bill LeeAmerican businessman and politician · b. 1959
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Horace McCoyAmerican writer · b. 1897
James StormAmerican professional wrestler · b. 1977

Questions about Fairview’s history

What year was Fairview founded?

The Fairview post office opened in 1937, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records). Wikidata gives 1959.

How does Fairview rank for history?

Fairview is more historic than 15% of U.S. towns, #153 of 177 in Tennessee. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.

What is on the National Register in Fairview?

One place: the Triangle School (listed 2007).

How old are the homes in Fairview?

3% of Fairview’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±1.6 points), against a typical 4.9% for a Tennessee town; the median home was built in 1997.

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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).

From Wikimedia Commons (9), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), 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.