Fairview is a town in

Collin County, Texas Collin County is a county in the northern part of the U.S. state of Texas. It is part of the Dallas- Fort Worth- Arlington metropolitan statistical area, and a small portion of the city of Dallas is in the county. At the 2020 United States c ...

, United States. It is part of the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the town population was 10,372.{{cite web, url=https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/fairviewtowntexas/PST045223 The estimated population in 2023 was 10,790.{{cite web, url=https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/fairviewtowntexas/PST045223 The town is adjacent to the {{convert, 289, acre, km2, adj=on Heard Natural Science Museum and Wildlife Sanctuary.

History

A petition to request an incorporation election for Fairview was submitted to the county judge and commissioners' court on April 21, 1958, and following an election on May 7, 1958, and count of all 50 ballots, the town was incorporated, ordered by Collin County Judge W. E. Button.

Geography

Fairview is located just southwest of the geographic center of Collin County. It is bordered by

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, the

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, to the north, by Allen to the west and south, and by

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to the southeast. Wilson Creek, a tributary of the East Fork Trinity River, forms part of the northeastern boundary. According to the

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, Fairview has a total area of {{convert, 22.5, km2, order=flip, of which {{convert, 0.04, sqkm, order=flip, 2, or 0.20%, is covered by water.{{cite web, url=http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_SF1/G001/1600000US4825224, title=Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Census Summary File 1 (G001): Fairview town, Texas, publisher=U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder, access-date=August 3, 2015, archive-url=https://archive.today/20200213082714/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_SF1/G001/1600000US4825224, archive-date=February 13, 2020, url-status=dead

Demographics

{{US Census population , align = right , 1970 = 463 , 1980 = 893 , 1990 = 1554 , 2000 = 2644 , 2010 = 7248 , 2020 = 10372 , estyear = 2023 , estimate = 10790 , estref = {{cite web, url=https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/fairviewtowntexas/PST045223#PST045223, title=Population and Housing Unit Estimates, publisher=United States Census Bureau, access-date=January 26, 2025 , footnote = U.S. Decennial Census{{cite web, url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html, title=Census of Population and Housing, publisher=Census.gov, access-date=June 4, 2015 {, class="wikitable" , +Fairview, Texas - Racial and ethnic composition
(NH = Non-Hispanic){{efn, Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos can be of any race. !Race !Pop 2010 !Pop 2020 !% 2010 !% 2020 , - ,

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(NH) , 6,102 , 7,581 , 84.19% , 73.1% , - , Black or African American (NH) , 245 , 669 , 3.38% , 6.45% , - , Native American or

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(NH) , 36 , 39 , 0.50% , 0.38% , - , Asian (NH) , 308 , 821 , 4.25% , 7.92% , - ,

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(NH) , 0 , 5 , 0.00% , 0.05% , - , Some Other Race (NH) , 4 , 53 , 0.06% , 0.51% , - , Mixed/Multi-Racial (NH) , 103 , 455 , 1.42% , 4.39% , - , Hispanic or Latino , 450 , 748 , 6.21% , 7.21% , - , Total , 7,248 , 10,372 , 100.00% , 100.00% As of the 2020 United States census, there were 10,372 people, 3,681 households, and 2,629 families residing in the town.

Government

The town has a

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. The town council consists of a mayor and six council members. The current mayor is John Hubbard, who has served in the role since May 2025.

Education

Fairview is served by two school districts, the Lovejoy Independent School District and the

McKinney Independent School District McKinney Independent School District (McKinney ISD) is a public independent school district in McKinney, Texas, United States. In addition to McKinney, the district serves the town of New Hope, Texas, New Hope and parts of Allen, Texas, Allen, ...

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External links

Town of Fairview official website

Lovejoy Independent School District

McKinney Independent School District

ePodunk: Profile for Fairview, Texas
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