Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:
That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.
By learning about Fairview (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.
As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Fairview. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.
Neighboring Counties ...
When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.
For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.
So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived: their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the west contained birth and death records; the county to the south contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.
If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.
Fairview is located in Washington County .
To see how the shape of Tennessee's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries .
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Washington County : Carter , Greene , Hawkins , Sullivan & Unicoi .
Below are the counties that are near Fairview. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Fairview:
Washington County (The home county of Fairview)
The following are listed by their distance from Fairview, with the one closest to Fairview listed first.
Leesburg (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Leesburg is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leesburg Bowmantown (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Bowmantown is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowmantown Population from the 2010 Census: 302 people
Locust Mount (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
Locust Mount is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Locust Mount Jonesborough (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
Big Sandy (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Big Sandy is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Sandy Estimated population in 2014: 542 people
Green Hill (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Green Hill is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Hill Telford (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
Onks (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
Onks is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Onks Estimated population in 2014: 3,715 people
Harmony (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
Harmony is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harmony Oakland (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
Oakland is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakland Ducktown (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
Ducktown is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ducktown Estimated population in 2014: 457 people
Midway (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
Midway is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway Carter County
The following are listed by their distance from Fairview, with the one closest to Fairview listed first.
Pine Crest (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
Pine Crest is located in Carter County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Crest Central (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
Central is located in Carter County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Central Watauga (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
Watauga is located in Carter County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Watauga Population from the 2020 Census: 373 people
Biltmore (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
Biltmore is located in Carter County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Biltmore Elizabethton (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
Gap Run (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
Gap Run is located in Carter County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gap Run Woodby Hill (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
Woodby Hill is located in Carter County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodby Hill Estimated population in 2014: 2,730 people
Tolley Town (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
Tolley Town is located in Carter County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tolley Town Hampton (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
Hunter (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
Hunter is located in Carter County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hunter Siam (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
Siam is located in Carter County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Siam Burbank (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
Burbank is located in Carter County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burbank Greene County
The following are listed by their distance from Fairview, with the one closest to Fairview listed first.
Milburnton (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
Milburnton is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milburnton Centersville (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
Centersville is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centersville Rheatown (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
Rheatown is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rheatown Jearoldstown (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
Jearoldstown is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jearoldstown Horse Creek (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
Horse Creek is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Horse Creek Estimated population in 2014: 284 people
Afton (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
Fairview (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
Fairview is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairview Henshaw ‑ Historic(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
Henshaw is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Henshaw Estimated population in 2014: 470 people
Pleasant View (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
Pleasant View is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant View Estimated population in 2014: 4,251 people
Tusculum (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
Tusculum is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tusculum Population from the 2020 Census: 2,669 people
Bolton Estates (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
Bolton Estates is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bolton Estates Estimated population in 2014: 5,152 people
Baileyton (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
Hawkins County
The following are listed by their distance from Fairview, with the one closest to Fairview listed first.
Chimneytop ‑ Historic(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
Chimneytop is located in Hawkins County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chimneytop Blossom (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
Blossom is located in Hawkins County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blossom Rotherwood (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
Rotherwood is located in Hawkins County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rotherwood Block City (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
Block City is located in Hawkins County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Block City Church Hill (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
Green Village (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
Green Village is located in Hawkins County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Village Mount Carmel (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
Solitude ‑ Historic(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
Solitude is located in Hawkins County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Solitude Greenvale (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
Greenvale is located in Hawkins County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenvale Greenland (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
Greenland is located in Hawkins County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenland New Canton (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
New Canton is located in Hawkins County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Canton Frisco (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
Frisco is located in Hawkins County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frisco Johnson County
The following are listed by their distance from Fairview, with the one closest to Fairview listed first.
Butler (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
High Health ‑ Historic(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
High Health is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for High Health Sullivan County
The following are listed by their distance from Fairview, with the one closest to Fairview listed first.
Fordtown (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
Fordtown is located in Sullivan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fordtown Kendrick Creek ‑ Historic(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
Kendrick Creek is located in Sullivan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kendrick Creek Colonial Heights (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
Wahoo ‑ Historic(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
Wahoo is located in Sullivan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wahoo Colby ‑ Historic(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
Colby is located in Sullivan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colby Blair Gap (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
Blair Gap is located in Sullivan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blair Gap Estimated population in 2014: 1,870 people
Beechwood Village (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
Beechwood Village is located in Sullivan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beechwood Village Piney Flats (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
Thom ‑ Historic(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
Thom is located in Sullivan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thom Borden Village (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
Borden Village is located in Sullivan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Borden Village Kingsport (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
Cherokee Village (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
Cherokee Village is located in Sullivan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherokee Village Unicoi County
The following are listed by their distance from Fairview, with the one closest to Fairview listed first.
Bumpus Cove (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
Bumpus Cove is located in Unicoi County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bumpus Cove Estimated population in 2014: 729 people
Banner Hill (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
Banner Hill is located in Unicoi County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Banner Hill Population from the 2010 Census: 1,497 people
Erwin (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
Unicoi (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
Whispering Pines (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
Whispering Pines is located in Unicoi County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whispering Pines Indian Creek ‑ Historic(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
Indian Creek is located in Unicoi County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Creek Ernestville (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
Ernestville is located in Unicoi County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ernestville Estimated population in 2014: 1,311 people
Clear Branch (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
Clear Branch is located in Unicoi County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clear Branch Former name for Clear Branch:
Kittyton Limestone Cove (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
Limestone Cove is located in Unicoi County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Limestone Cove Loganton ‑ Historic(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
Loganton is located in Unicoi County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loganton Flag Pond (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
Flag Pond is located in Unicoi County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flag Pond Madison County (NC)
The following are listed by their distance from Fairview, with the one closest to Fairview listed first.
Allegheny (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
Allegheny is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allegheny Cutshalltown (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
Cutshalltown is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cutshalltown White Rock (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
White Rock is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Rock Allenstand (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
Allenstand is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allenstand Chapel Hill (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
Chapel Hill is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chapel Hill Foster Creek (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
Foster Creek is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foster Creek Bethel (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
Bethel is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bethel Hurricane (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
Hurricane is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hurricane Mitchell County (NC)
The following are listed by their distance from Fairview, with the one closest to Fairview listed first.
Richlands (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
Richlands is located in Mitchell County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richlands Bailey (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
Bailey is located in Mitchell County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bailey Buladean (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
Buladean is located in Mitchell County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buladean Huntdale (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
Huntdale is located in Mitchell County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huntdale Relief (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
Relief is located in Mitchell County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Relief Tipton Hill (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
Tipton Hill is located in Mitchell County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tipton Hill Herrell ‑ Historic(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
Herrell is located in Mitchell County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Herrell Red Hill (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
Red Hill is located in Mitchell County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Hill Little Rock Creek ‑ Historic(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
Little Rock Creek is located in Mitchell County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Rock Creek Bakersville (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
Yancey County (NC)
The following are listed by their distance from Fairview, with the one closest to Fairview listed first.
Sioux (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
Sioux is located in Yancey County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sioux Ramseytown (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
Ramseytown is located in Yancey County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ramseytown Higgins (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
Higgins is located in Yancey County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Higgins Day Book (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
Day Book is located in Yancey County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Day Book Green Mountain (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
Burnsville (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Double Island (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Double Island is located in Yancey County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Double Island
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Fairview, see our County-by-County Page for Fairview .
Cemeteries Near Fairview ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Fairview.
This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know . If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.
Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Fairview - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Fairview covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Fairview, with the one closest to Fairview listed first.
Fairview Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the south)
Leesburg Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Mt. Zion Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the south)
De Vault Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the south)
Bowman Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the south)
New Hope Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
Archer Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
Keebler Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
Bowmantown - Philadelphia Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Sulphur Springs Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
McCarty Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
Bales Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
Continue List (1025 more) ...
Carter Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
Pleasant Valley Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
Patton Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
Nearby Communities in 1895 ...
We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<2>
While we didn't find Fairview in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Fairview.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Fairview, with the one closest to Fairview listed first.
Leesburg (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Leesburg is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leesburg Bowmantown (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Bowmantown is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowmantown Population from the 2010 Census: 302 people
February (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
February is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for February Jonesborough (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
Locust Mount (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
Locust Mount is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Locust Mount Telford (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
Keebler Crossroads (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Keebler Crossroads is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keebler Crossroads Christie ‑ Historic(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
Christie is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Christie Matuta ‑ Historic(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
Matuta is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Matuta Harmony (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
Harmony is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harmony Mill Brook (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Mill Brook is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mill Brook Washington College (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
Washington College is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Washington College Continue List (15 more) ...
Milburnton (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
Milburnton is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milburnton Meadowbrook (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
Meadowbrook is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadowbrook Broylesville (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Broylesville is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Broylesville
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Fairview. See our List of 1890's Communities around Fairview .
Newspapers Published in Fairview ...
An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) .
To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.
Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 30 newspapers that have been published in the area around Fairview.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Fairview, there are papers which were published within 9 miles [14.5 km]<3> Extended Newspaper List for Fairview.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.
To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Fairview:
Websites specific to Tennessee Pages specific to Washington County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Carter County Greene County Hawkins County Johnson County Sullivan County Unicoi County Madison County Mitchell County Yancey County Cemetery Information and Directories for Tennessee Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Fairview. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page .
The official website for State of Tennessee: https://www.tn.gov/
Footnotes ...
<1> While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Fairview, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Fairview) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.