Fairview, Cass County, Texas

Fairview is an unincorporated community in Cass County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population of 20 in 2000.

History

The area in what is known as Fairview today may have been settled by the early 1900s. A 1933 county map showed Fairview as a station on the United States and Northwestern Railroad. Besides the railroad, the community also had some farms and a mine in the 1930s. The small community only had 20 residents in 2000.

Geography

Fairview is located within a mile of U.S. Highway 59, southwest of Linden in southern Cass County.

Education

Fairview had two schools in the 1930s, one for African Americans. Today, the community is served by the Linden-Kildare Consolidated Independent School District.