Fair Play, MO

Fair Play is a city in western Polk County, Missouri, United States. The 2020 census counted 422 residents. Fair Play is part of the Springfield, Missouri Metropolitan Statistical Area. The first post office in Fair Play was established in 1852. Fair Play has a public library, a branch of the Polk County Library. Fair Play's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Missouri setting. The local scoop is how Fair Play's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. The founder wished to call it Oakland, but because that name was already assigned to another community, he declared "We'll just call it Fair Play". Fair Play is located at the intersection of Missouri routes 32 and 123.