Fairfield Tennessee Map

About Fairfield, Tennessee

Fairfield is a locality in Sumner County, Tennessee, United States. It is a small community with a population of 141. The population density is 54.9 people per km². Fairfield is located at 36.6209°N, 86.3425°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP codes: 37745, 37020, 37033.

Fairfield emerges from the landscape as a quiet collection of fields and timber, defined by the slow, deliberate work of the seasons upon the soil. It lies 9.8 miles east-northeast of Portland, TN (from Portland, TN: bearing 74°T), and is situated 6.7 miles northwest of Westmoreland. The land here slopes away into the depression of Keen Hollow, where the shadows grow long and cool well before the sun dips below the horizon. A mile away, the Middle Fork Drakes Creek carves its path through the earth, a constant, low-voiced neighbor that keeps the ground damp and dark, while the surface of Meadowbrook Game Farm Lake reflects the shifting, bruised purples of a Tennessee dusk. Though the Appalachian Mountains remain a distant, hazy suggestion on the far eastern edge of the world, Fairfield occupies its own distinct corner of the bluegrass plateau, where the air holds the heavy, sweet scent of drying hay and the stillness of a place that has learned to wait.

Generations of families have organized their lives around the cycles of this geography, moving through the days with a rhythm dictated by the harvest and the changing light. Fairfield maintains a character shaped by its history as a place of agriculture and modest industry, where the labor of the hands remains the primary currency of the day. While Richland Park provides a destination for those seeking the quiet reach of public lands, most of the local life remains tied to the private, working patches of ground that have been tended for decades. There is a particular clarity to the morning here, a sharpness in the light that catches the grain of the weathered barns and the simple, sturdy architecture of the houses, marking Fairfield as a place that values the weight of its own quiet persistence above the clamor of the modern world.

About This Fairfield Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Fairfield, Tennessee. Coordinates: 36.620881, -86.342491. 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 Fairfield includes the ZIP code (37745, 37020, 37033), telephone area code (615, 629), county seat of Sumner County (Gallatin), and school district assignment (Sumner 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.