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Welcome to Fair Grove ...

Fair Grove is located in Davidson County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Fair Grove, you might consider that their post office opened in 1827.

A typical abbreviation for Fair Grove: Fair Grv.

Fair Grove is 830 feet [253 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Fair Grove lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for Fair Grove: 336 & 743<3>

Communities Also Named Fair Grove ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Fair Grove - it's located in Missouri.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Fair Grove.

Communities near Fair Grove ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Fair Grove.

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Fair Grove. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Fair Grove.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Fair Grove. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Fair Grove.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Fair Grove. See our Newspapers Page for Fair Grove.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Fair Grove ...

Looking for more information about Fair Grove? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Fair Grove, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Fair Grove.

Adding Fair Grove to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Fair Grove in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Fair Grove was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Fair Grove post office opened in 1827. The Fair Grove post office closed in 1907.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Fair Grove.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of North Carolina's counties, including Davidson, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Fair Grove - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 336 code has been Overlayed with the 743 area code. New phone numbers in the Fair Grove area will be assigned with one of these codes: 336 or 743. As a result, placing a call in the Fair Grove area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/