Fairfield is a

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...

and

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in Sumner County,

Tennessee Tennessee (, ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Kentucky to the north, Virginia to the northeast, North Carolina t ...

, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 141, up from 131 at the 2010 census.

History

In 1808, a man called John Sarver settled the area. The community in the area grew around the terrain he had settled overtime.

References

Census-designated places in Sumner County, Tennessee Census-designated places in Tennessee Unincorporated communities in Tennessee {{SumnerCountyTN-geo-stub