Fairview is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in Coos County,

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, United States. Fairview is along the

North Fork Coquille River The North Fork Coquille River is a tributary of the Coquille River in the southern Oregon Coast Range in the U.S. state of Oregon. It begins at an elevation of about above sea level and drops to near Myrtle Point, where it joins the South For ...

about northeast of Coquille. According to

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, the community's name is descriptive. A local logging railroad once connected Fairview to the

Southern Pacific The Southern Pacific (or Espee from the railroad initials) was an American Class I railroad network that existed from 1865 to 1996 and operated largely in the Western United States. The system was operated by various companies under the names ...

rail network at ''Fairview Junction'' near Coquille. A post office opened in Fairview in 1873, with Francis Braden as the first postmaster. The post office name in Coos County led to complications in Fairview in

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, where the post office at the Fairview railway station was temporarily named ''Cleone'' to avoid using the same name for two different post offices. The Coos County office closed in 1913, and the ''Cleone'' office became the ''Fairview'' office in 1914.

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