Fairport, IA

Fairport is an unincorporated community and census-designated place along the Mississippi River and Iowa Highway 22 in Muscatine County, Iowa, United States. The 2020 census counted 204 residents. Fairport, originally called "Salem", was platted in 1839. Fairport was once a stop along the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad and along the Milwaukee Road. Muscatine High School is the district's high school. A newcomer can read Fairport through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Fairport comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. Fairport is in eastern Muscatine County, on the north bank of the Mississippi River. The community extends north to include the tops of the bluffs overlooking the river.