Fairview Alabama Map

About Fairview, Alabama

Fairview is a locality in Etowah 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 emerges from the red-clay earth as a collection of quiet homesteads and sprawling fields, defined by the steady, inland pulse of northern Alabama. It lies 5.4 miles north of Gadsden, AL (from Gadsden, AL: bearing 8°T), and is situated 9.9 miles north-northeast of Rainbow City. The landscape unfolds in a series of gentle swells and depressions, with the dense, dark timber of longleaf pine standing as sentinels over the terrain. To the north, the distant profile of Big Mountain anchors the horizon, while the cooling moisture of the air gathers in the low-lying expanse of Bob Walden Hollow. Little Wills Creek traces a meandering path through the brush just a mile away, its waters cutting through the quiet shade of the woodland, while the nearby presence of Mount Eba Lake offers a stillness that mirrors the vast, open sky above.

Fairview maintains a rhythm tethered to the cycles of the land, where the local economy finds its roots in the persistent labor of agriculture and the quiet industry of the surrounding countryside. Generations have built their lives upon this ground, finding a communal anchor at Town Hall Park, where the afternoon light softens against the grass and children play in the cooling shadows. The cultural memory of the region is etched into the very soil, a history as deep and intricate as the roots of the hardwoods that define the canopy. On quiet evenings, the distant, rhythmic rush of Noccalula Falls carries on the breeze, a reminder of the natural forces that have shaped the character of Fairview long before the first roads were paved across the red-clay hills.

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 Etowah County (Gadsden), 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.