Fairview, Texas
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the McKinney census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75069. It stands on Barksdale Creek. The Survey maps it on the McKinney West quadrangle. 10,372 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 630 feet above sea level.
On record in Fairview
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
- Fairview H&TC Railroad Historic Districtlisted 2010
Population over time
2 figuresFairview grew from 7,248 to 10,372 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 7,248 | |
| 2020 | 10,372 | +3,124 (+43%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1929 USGS McKinney quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS McKinney West quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1985 USGS McKinney quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
106 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Fairview between 2005 and 2017, burning about 230 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 53 |
| Debris and open burning | 26 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Smoking | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 4001 N 75 |
| 5 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 1414 S TENNESSEE |
| 4 September 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | 13-0258 |
| 4 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 100 CENTRAL EXSPY |
| 30 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 15-389 |
| 28 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | S AIRPORT RD |
| 25 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | 15-350 |
| 21 September 2011 | Smoking | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | E UNIVERSITY & FM 1827 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Fairview: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Storms near this place
18 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairview in 18 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 9 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2017 | Hail | Fairview | $200,000 | Storm Spotter reported tennis ball size hail near highway 121 and US 75. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairview | $50,000 | The McKinney COOP observer reported large tree limbs and branches blown down. |
| April 2022 | Flash Flood | Fairview | $25,000 | Fire and rescue reported a water rescue near the 5000 block of McKinney Ranch Parkway in McKinney, TX. |
| April 2022 | Flash Flood | Fairview | $15,000 | Fire and Rescue reported a high water rescue near the intersection of Park View Avenue and Gerry R. Lane. |
| March 2019 | Hail | Fairview | $10,000 | A trained spotter reported golf ball size hail approximately 5 miles west-southwest of the city of McKinney, TX. |
| March 2019 | Hail | Fairview | $10,000 | A social media report indicated hen-egg size hail approximately 1 mile southeast of the intersection of Lake Forest Dr and Eldorado Parkway in the city of McKinney, TX. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Fairview | $5,000 | An storm spotter reported half dollar size hail near McKinney. |
| December 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairview | $5,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds damaged shingles on roofs, tore down wood fences, and broke tree limbs around Gardenia Lane in McKinney. |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairview | $2,000 | no account filed |
| March 2025 | Hail | Fairview | - | An amateur radio reported ping pong ball sized hail at Hardin and Eldorado in McKinney. |
| March 2025 | Hail | Fairview | - | Amateur radio operator reported ping pong ball sized hail just west of Fairview. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairview | - | A public report indicated widespread tree damage in Town Lake Park in the city of McKinney. Images included trees both snapped and uprooted. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairview | - | Between 5:34 and 5:41 AM, 63 mph wind gusts were measured at KTKI. |
| March 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairview | - | The McKinney National Airport ASOS measured a 64 mph wind gust. |
| March 2017 | Hail | Fairview | - | A trained spotter reported quarter-sized hail 2 miles southwest of McKinney. |
| May 2015 | Flood | Fairview | - | Collin County Sheriff's Department reported that CR 117 was closed due to flooding. |
| June 2021 | Hail | Fairview | - | no account filed |
| March 2017 | Hail | Fairview | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wetsel | 2.1 miles | 11 | |
| Forest Grove | 2.9 miles | 12 | |
| McKinney | 2.9 miles | 11 | |
| Allen | 4.3 miles | 12 | |
| Buckner | 4.5 miles | 11 | |
| Lowry Crossing | 4.5 miles | 11 | |
| Winningkoff | 4.8 miles | 12 | |
| Milligan | 4.9 miles | 11 |
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 Q277459 | 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 1335618. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.




