The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusFairview is a town in Marion County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 374 at the 2020 census. The town took its name from the old Fairview Inn near the original town site.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 408 to 373 (-9%). Half of its homes were built before 1938.
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 Amos Farmstead Historic District in Grant Town, 4 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 Wikimedia Commons (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.