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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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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 Douglas County.

To see how the shape of Washington's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Douglas County: Chelan, Grant, Kittitas, Lincoln & Okanogan.

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:

  • Douglas County     (The home county of Fairview)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Fairview, with the one closest to Fairview listed first.
    • Mansfield
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Mold ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Mold is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mold
    • Bridgeport
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Withrow
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Withrow is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Withrow
    • Osborne Corner
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Osborne Corner is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Osborne Corner
    • Beebe
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Beebe is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beebe
    • Coulee Dam
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Okanogan City ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Okanogan City is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Okanogan City
    • Waterville
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Chelan County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Fairview, with the one closest to Fairview listed first.
    • Chelan Falls
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
    • Chelan
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
    • Manson
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
  • Grant County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Fairview, with the one closest to Fairview listed first.
    • Banks Lake South
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • Banks Lake South is located in Grant County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Banks Lake South
    • Coulee City
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Hartline
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Electric City
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Grand Coulee
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Stratford
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Stratford is located in Grant County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stratford
  • Lincoln County
    • Almira
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
  • Okanogan County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Fairview, with the one closest to Fairview listed first.
    • Monse
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
      • Monse is located in Okanogan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monse
    • Brewster
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Virginia City ‑ Historic
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Virginia City is located in Okanogan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Virginia City
    • Pateros
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Mason City ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Mason City is located in Okanogan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mason City
    • Elmer City
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Methow
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)

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.

  • Buckingham Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Danish Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
  • Mold Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
  • St. Andrews Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
  • Jameson Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Highland Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
  • Coulee City Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
  • Indian Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
  • Happy Home Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Fletcher Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
  • Ft. Okanogan Memorial Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
  • St. Johns Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...
    • Locust Grove Cemetery
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Riverview Cemetery
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
    • Evangelical Emanuel Cemetery
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)

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.

  • Saint Andrews
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Saint Andrews is located in Douglas County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Andrews
  • Thompson ‑ Historic
    (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Thompson is located in Okanogan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thompson
  • Ophir
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
    • Ophir is located in Okanogan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ophir
  • Douglas
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Douglas is located in Douglas County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Douglas
  • Almira
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
  • Waterville
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)

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 40 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 29 miles [46.7 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the 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 professional and volunteer 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:

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<2>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.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things 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'.