The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusFairview is a home rule-class city in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States. The city is a suburb of Cincinnati. It was incorporated by the state assembly in 1957 to avoid annexation by Covington. The population was 144 at the 2020 census.
Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 143 people in 2010, 144 in 2020. Half of its homes were built before 1948.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Fairview yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.
Start Fairview’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Fairview’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Fairview, decade by decade
2000
Nothing in Fairview is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Fairview has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church in Wilder, 1.2 miles away.
Fairview and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.
Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom the Library of Congress (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.