Fairview West Virginia Map

About Fairview, West Virginia

Fairview is a locality in Marion 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 occupies a quiet stretch of land where the persistent currents of Paw Paw Creek carve a path through the dense, verdant terrain of the northern highlands. It lies 9.3 miles northwest of Fairmont, WV (from Fairmont, WV: bearing 323°T), and is situated 15.7 miles west of Morgantown. The air here holds a particular weight, cooling rapidly as the shadows of the Appalachian Mountains, visible as a faint, jagged ink-line on the eastern horizon, lengthen across the canopy. Within the immediate footprint of the land, Fairview Town Park provides a modest clearing where the light filters through the hardwood leaves in shifting patterns of bronze and ochre. Beyond the local canopy, the landscape deepens into the rugged contours of the surrounding region, where every incline and depression suggests the ancient, slow-moving geology of the interior.

Fairview bears the quiet marks of an industrial heritage, defined by the legacy of extraction that once animated the rhythms of life in these deep hollows. While the echoes of the coal-camp era linger in the architecture of the older dwellings, the local economy has since shifted toward a more deliberate pace, drawing on the steady, quiet resilience of those who remain. The presence of Consol Number Nine Water Supply Lake, lying a few miles to the north, serves as a silent, reflective anchor for the landscape, its surface often undisturbed by the passage of time. Daily existence in Fairview moves with the unforced cadence of a place that values its own independence, far removed from the frantic pulse of the urban centers that lie beyond the ridge-tops.

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 Marion County (Fairmont), 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.