Fairview, MO

Fairview is a city in southeastern Newton County, Missouri, United States. The 2010 census counted 383 residents. Fairview is part of the Joplin, Missouri Metropolitan Statistical Area. A post office called Fairview has been in operation since 1907. The Horner Institute, a private school offering courses of study from the eighth grade through high school, was located in Fairview from 1908 until merging with the Stella Academy and moving to Stella in 1912. The short version is that Fairview carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Fairview: its past remains attached to the places people use now. The community was so named on account of the fair setting of the original town site. Fairview is located along Missouri Route 86 in southeastern Newton County. Fairview is approximately 18 miles east-southeast of Neosho and one mile west of the Barry -Newton county line.