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Fairview, Alabama

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Simcoe census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35058. It stands on Minnow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lawrence Cove quadrangle. 543 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 938 feet above sea level.

Fairview within Cullman County

Population over time

2 figures

Fairview grew from 446 to 543 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010446
2020543+97 (+22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

31 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Fairview between 1997 and 2017, burning about 105 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning18
Arson/incendiarism6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission1885 COUNTY ROAD 1559, AL
23 September 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160923-9
22 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionCOUNTY ROAD 1561, AL
18 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionCOUNTY ROAD 1561, AL
26 August 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cullman County

Storms near this place

35 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairview in 35 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 20 thunderstorm wind, 14 hail, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2009LightningFairview1 hurtA person was struck by lightning on CR 1536 in the Fairview area.
May 1994Thunderstorm WindFairview$50,000Trees were blown down in the Holly Pond and Fairview area of northeastern Cullman County.
September 1996Thunderstorm WindFairview$15,000no account filed
June 2009Thunderstorm WindFairview$14,000Numerous trees were reported blown down in Fairview.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindFairview$10,000A few power lines were downed by thunderstorm winds just northeast of Cullman.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindFairview$5,000Trees were knocked down along Highway 69 in Fairview.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindFairview$5,000A tree and large limbs was blown down by thunderstorm winds on county road 1545 in the Gold Ridge community.
December 2004Thunderstorm WindFairview$5,000A roof was blown off of a convenient store by thunderstorm winds.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindFairview$3,000Several trees were blown down and dime size hail was reported in Fairview and Holly Pond.
June 1999HailFairview$3,000Quarter size hail was reported in Fairview.
April 1999HailFairview$3,000Golfball size hail fell and several power outages were reported in the Fairview area and in other parts of northeastern Cullman County.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindFairview$2,000Power lines were knocked down at 7467 Highway 69. Time estimated by radar.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindFairview$2,000A tree was downed along CR 1528. Time was estimated from radar.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindFairview$2,000A tree fell on a house in the Fairview community. Time was estimated.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindFairview$2,000A few power lines were knocked down in Fairview.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindFairview$1,000A tree was knocked down onto a house on Wesley Road.
December 2023Thunderstorm WindFairview$1,000A power line was knocked down in front of Merchants Bank in Fairview. Time estimated from radar.
February 2011HailFairview$1,000Golf ball size hail was reported near Antioch.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindFairview$1,000Trees were blown down in the Gold Ridge Community near Fairview.
April 2021HailFairview-A social media photo indicated quarter sized hail in Fairview.
January 2020Thunderstorm WindFairview-Structures damaged near CR 1691.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindFairview-Several trees were knocked down along CR 1564. Three homes were damage due to falling trees.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindFairview-A few power lines and a few trees were downed onto homes by thunderstorm winds along Highway 69 between the Simcoe and Baileyton communities in Marshall County, Alabama.
March 2015HailFairview-Quarter sized hail was reported.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindFairview-Thunderstorms wind tore off a large portion of metal roof from a barn. The time was estimated by radar.
April 2012HailFairview-Penny sized hail was reported.
March 2010HailFairview-Penny size hail was reported in Fairview.
May 2009HailFairview-Nickel size hail was reported in the Fairview communty.
August 2008HailFairview-A severe thunderstorm produced golf ball size hail in the Fairview community.
August 2008HailFairview-Golf ball size hail was reported in Fairview near highway 69.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindFairview-A few trees and power lines were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
April 2002HailFairview-Dime size fell in Fairview and the hail covered the ground in a few spots.
June 2002HailFairview-Dime size hail was observed in several locations in Cullman County. These locations include Hollypond, Fairview, and Baileyton. A few trees were also blown down with these storms.
March 2000HailFairview-Dime size hail was observed in Fairview.
June 1999HailFairview-Nickel size hail was reported in Fairview. Dime size hail was reported in Cranehill. A carport was blown over and nickel size hail occurred in Vinemont.

Every storm recorded in Cullman County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Birdsong2.3 miles17
County Line3.1 miles18
Simcoe3.3 miles17
Gold Ridge3.5 miles17
Baileyton4.0 miles20
New Hope4.3 miles17
Pleasant View4.3 miles19
Brooklyn4.4 miles19

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on FairviewAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q66258The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 118132. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.