Fairview, Utah

United States

Utah

Sanpete

Fairview

City Hall

http://fairviewcity.com/
Fairview City Hall
165 North State Street
Fairview, UT 84629
Phone: (435) 427-3858
Fax: (435) 427-3275

Quick Facts

Wikipedia

1 October 1859: Founded as North Bend during the second wave of Mormon settlement in the Sanpete Valley.

1864: Renamed Fairview when postoffice was obtained.

Resources

Biography

1. Mother's memories, 1982, Estella Harmon
2. Sheepherding in the Fairview, Utah area, A. J. Anderson
3. Henry Weeks Sanderson : from Blandford, Massachusetts to Fairview, Utah : an autobiography

Cemeteries

There are two cemeteries in Fairview; an upper cemetery and a lower cemetery. The lower cemetery is also known as the pioneer cemetery. It was used in the early years of the settlement. The first interments were in 1859. The transcription includes all interments from 1859 to 1900.

Fairview Cemetery

1. USGS GNIS FID 1440984
2. Hometown Locator
3. Findagrave.com
4. Utah State History - click on "Search for a Person", then select "Fairview Upper and Lower Cemetery" for more complete listing.
5. BillionGraves page for this cemetery, searchable database, Google map, headstone photos.

Fairview Pioneer Cemetery (aka Lower Cemetery)

1. Sanpete County UTGenWeb Project
2. Utah State History - Cemetery Database - not available as stand alone. Please refer to above cemetery for the combined database.
   
3. Histories of those buried in the Old Pioneer Cemetery, Fairview, Utah, compiled by the North Bend DUP
4. Cemetery records, Lower Fairview Cemetery (up to 1952), copied by Annie Carlston Bills
5. A record of the lower (old) cemetary [sic] of Fairview, compiled..., (up to 1975) by Olea Day Cox...indexed by Nancy Cox MacKay 

Census

• 1860 - as North Bend

Ancestry.com (FI$)

heritagequestonline.com (LAR)

United States Census 1860

• 1870

Ancestry.com (FI$)

heritagequestonline.com (LAR)

United States Census 1870

• 1880

Ancestry.com (FI$)

heritagequestonline.com (LAR)

United States Census 1880 - no images

• 1890

Ancestry.com (FI$)

heritagequestonline.com (LAR)

• 1900

Ancestry.com (FI$)

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United States Census 1900

• 1910

Ancestry.com (FI$)

heritagequestonline.com (LAR)

United States Census 1910

• 1920

Ancestry.com (FI$)

heritagequestonline.com (LAR)

United States Census 1920

• 1930

Ancestry.com (FI$)

heritagequestonline.com, no index, browse available (LAR)

United States Census 1930

FamilySearch

Church History and Records

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

1. Fairview (North Sanpete Stake)

1. Genealogy record of the high priest quorum, 1895-1907
   
2. Record of members, 1860-1907
   
3. Form E (annual genealogical report), 1907-1921
   
4. Record of members, 1862-1906

1. Fairview North

1. History of Fairview North Ward Relief Society, compiled by Hansen, Lucile M. 
2. Record of members, 1921-1941
   
3. Form E (annual genealogical report), 1921-1948
   

1. Fairview South

1. Record of members, 1921-1941
2. Form E (annual genealogical report), 1921-1948

History

see also: Cemeteries - Fairview Lower Cemetery

1. History of Fairview, Sanpete County, Utah
2. A History of Fairview: 1930-1931, by Olson and Coombs
   
3. Fairview Museum oral history project, 1975-1994.
   

Maps

1. USGS GNIS FID 1440983
2. Google
3. Hometown Locator

Societies, Libraries and Museums

1. Fairview Museum of History and Art
   85 North 100 East, Fairview
   Phone: 435-427-9216
   PO Box 157, Fairview, UT 84629
   The museum is full of historical data, artifacts pictures and artwork, including full scale replica of a nearly fully intact Columbian mammoth. The mammoth was unearthed on the nearby Wasatch Plateau in 1988 while excavating the Huntington Reservoir.