Fairview West Virginia Map

About Fairview, West Virginia

Fairview is a locality in Putnam County, West Virginia, United States. It is a small community with a population of 373. The population density is 514.3 people per km². Fairview is located at 39.5927°N, 80.2468°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Fairview is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 26377, 26570.

Fairview sits upon a landscape defined by the quiet persistence of earth and the slow, rhythmic movement of water through the terrain. It lies 2.5 miles west of Teays Valley, WV (from Teays Valley, WV: bearing 264°T), and is situated 9.6 miles west-northwest of St. Albans. Albans. The ground here rises and falls in long, deliberate swells of soil and shale, creating a horizon where the silhouettes of distant Appalachian Mountains occasionally sharpen against a fading violet sky. Close to the center of the local geography, the land drains into the modest, winding course of Tackett Branch, which carries the seasonal runoff through thickets of oak and hickory. At the edge of the residential grid, Hurricane City Park offers an open space where the air often holds the cool, damp weight of the nearby I-64 Lake, a reminder of the quiet, inland moisture that sustains the deep green of the valley floor.

Fairview holds the memory of a time when the pulse of the regional economy was dictated by the extraction of subterranean wealth, a legacy that still echoes in the architecture of the older storefronts and the stubborn, independent spirit of its residents. Men and women here have long adapted to the topography, carving out a living within the challenging contours of the land, much like those who once worked the deeper reaches of Mill Hollow. While the heavy industry of the past has softened, the local character remains forged by the necessity of self-reliance and the slow turning of the seasons. There is a specific, melancholy beauty in the way the light catches the dust on a quiet afternoon, illuminating a place that carries its history not in monuments, but in the calloused hands and steady, unhurried habits of those who continue to call Fairview home.

About This Fairview Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Fairview, West Virginia. Coordinates: 39.592703, -80.246765. 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 (26377, 26570), telephone area code (304), county seat of Putnam County (Winfield), and school district assignment (Marion 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.