Do you know of Fairview Heights ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Fairview Heights. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Fairview Heights.

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Fairview Heights, so we are uncertain whether Fairview Heights is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Fairview Heights would be found somewhere in Arlington County, Virginia.

This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.

Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.

Communities Also Named Fairview Heights ...

We found twenty communities that share the name Fairview Heights.

There are three communities within Virginia that are also named Fairview Heights.

Beyond Virginia, we know of another seventeen communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Located In Virginia ...
- Alleghany County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Fairview Heights [Alleghany County].
- Lexington City
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Fairview Heights [Lexington City].
- Lynchburg City
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Fairview Heights [Lynchburg City].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Saint Clair County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Fairview Heights [Saint Clair County].
- Georgia
  - Walker County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Fairview Heights [Walker County].
- Illinois
  - Saint Clair County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Fairview Heights [Saint Clair County].
- Kentucky
  - Franklin County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Fairview Heights [Franklin County].
- Ohio
  - Jefferson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Fairview Heights [Jefferson County].
  - Washington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Fairview Heights [Washington County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Allegheny County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Fairview Heights [Allegheny County].
  - Berks County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Fairview Heights [Berks County].
  - Luzerne County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Fairview Heights [Luzerne County].
  - McKean County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Fairview Heights [McKean County].
- South Carolina
  - Spartanburg County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Fairview Heights [Spartanburg County].
- South Dakota
  - Yankton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Fairview Heights [Yankton County].
- Tennessee
  - Blount County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Fairview Heights [Blount County].
  - Jefferson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Fairview Heights [Jefferson County].
  - Maury County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Fairview Heights [Maury County].
  - Williamson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Fairview Heights [Williamson County].
- West Virginia
  - Wood County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Fairview Heights [Wood County].

More Orphans in Arlington County ...

Can you help?

As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Arlington County.

Footnotes ...

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If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Fairview Heights could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.