Fairview, Indiana

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46127. The Survey maps it on the Falmouth quadrangle. It stands 1,060 feet above sea level.

Fairview within Rush County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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.

1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS New Castle quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

8,957 words on this township

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Union Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Union Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Falmouth	1.1 miles	8
Gings	3.8 miles	8
Glenwood	4.1 miles	8
Mauzy	4.7 miles	9
Raleigh	5.2 miles	8
Farmington	5.6 miles	9
Sexton	7.2 miles	9
Mays	7.9 miles	9

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 Fairview	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18150632	The 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 434309. 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.