Fairview Virginia Map

About Fairview, Virginia

Fairview is a locality in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. It is a small community with a population of 237. The population density is 86.0 people per km². Fairview is located at 36.8292°N, 78.4653°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 24244, 22454, 24382.

Fairview asserts itself upon the landscape through the persistent, rhythmic carving of the Difficult Run, which guides the flow of the local terrain toward the nearby Mather Gorge. It lies 2.2 miles southeast of Great Falls, VA (from Great Falls, VA: bearing 130°T), and is situated 8.4 miles west of Bethesda. The earth here possesses a dense, iron-rich character, where the morning light filters through heavy canopies to illuminate the damp, shadowed banks of the Difficult Run Stream Valley Park. A mile away, the dark, still waters of Black Pond remain undisturbed by the brisk winds that occasionally travel from the distant Blue Ridge Mountains, visible only as a faint, jagged ink-line against the western horizon. The air in Fairview carries the scent of wet shale and decaying oak, a quiet weight that settles over the Gold Mine Trail as the sun dips below the tree line, leaving the forest floor in shades of deep, bruised violet.

Fairview maintains a steady, industrious pulse that reflects a transition from older, agrarian roots toward the modern professional demands of the surrounding corridor. The economic life of Fairview is tethered to the movement of commerce and the quiet expansion of local enterprises, though the echoes of a more deliberate era linger in the way residents navigate the winding paths of the park or seek the solitude of the woods. History is rarely shouted here; instead, it is found in the sediment of the landscape, where the legacy of past labor informs the current, measured pace of life. Even the distant, muted roar of Little Falls seems to remind the inhabitants of Fairview that their surroundings are shaped by forces far older than any human ledger, fostering a culture that values both the persistence of the land and the quiet, steady progress of its people.

About This Fairview Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Fairview, Virginia. Coordinates: 36.829244, -78.465344. 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 (24244, 22454, 24382), telephone area code (276), county seat of Fairfax County (Fairfax), and school district assignment (Mecklenburg County Public Schools).

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.