Fairview Alabama Map

About Fairview, Alabama

Fairview is a locality in Coffee County, Alabama, United States. It is a small community with a population of 543. The population density is 97.7 people per km². Fairview is located at 34.2502°N, 86.6777°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Fairview is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 35579, 35045, 35553.

Fairview reveals its character through the slow, persistent pulse of Beaverdam Creek, which carves a modest path through the dense, red-clay terrain of the region. It lies 12.4 miles west-southwest of Enterprise, AL (from Enterprise, AL: bearing 245°T), and is situated 12.8 miles east-southeast of Opp. The landscape around Fairview consists of broken, wooded expanses and fields that catch the heavy, humid light of late afternoon, casting long shadows across the uneven ground. Ten miles to the east, the timber of Geneva State Forest provides a dark, verdant backdrop to the horizon, while four miles out, the quiet reach of the State-owned Submerged Lands remains a stagnant, protected expanse of brush and water. The air here holds the weight of inland heat, moving sluggishly through the pines and hardwoods that define the edges of every pasture and property line.

Economic rhythms in Fairview have long been tethered to the soil, favoring the cultivation of crops that thrive in the rich, iron-heavy earth of the local countryside. While the distant silhouette of Buffalo Hill marks the far edge of the view, daily life remains focused on the immediate, practical concerns of farming and small-scale trade that have sustained the locality for generations. Public education remains a central pillar of the social structure, with the local school system serving as the primary anchor for families who have remained in the area through shifting agricultural cycles. Despite the absence of large-scale industry, there is a deliberate, persistent quality to the way the days unfold, marked by the occasional transit toward Lake Charles or the routine maintenance of the rural roads that bind the neighborhood together.

About This Fairview Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Fairview, Alabama. Coordinates: 34.250195, -86.677724. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Fairview includes the ZIP code (35579, 35045, 35553), telephone area code (205, 256), county seat of Coffee County (Elba), and school district assignment (Cullman County School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.