Fairview Park (Ohio)

Cuyahoga County

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Fairview Park ( to 1948 Fairview ) is a city in Cuyahoga County in the U.S. state of Ohio. It is located 15.6 km south west of Cleveland and far from Lake Erie, is 4.7 square miles ( 12.17 km ²) in size and had (2000) 17,572 inhabitants, of which 96 % white.

The city is located immediately west of the Rocky River, the well 30 meters deep valley is part of the Cleveland Metroparks and forms the border to Cleveland. Other neighboring municipalities are the City of Rocky River to the north, North Olmsted to the west and Brook Park to the south. On the southern edge of the city to Interstate 480, which belongs to the southern ring road of Cleveland runs. The main thoroughfare is the Lorain Road, which runs centrally and in a southwesterly direction through the city and a failure route from Cleveland.

Fairview Park is a purely residential community; The city has two public and two religious primary schools, one public middle school, five parks, six churches, a local museum, and two shopping centers. Under the local cemetery, a Native American burial ground is suspected.

Historically, the city forms the southwestern part of the Rockport Township, which covered the entire area around the mouth of the Rocky River in Lake Erie. Hence, the place was dissolved in 1910, initially under the name Fairview. To avoid confusion with a place of the same name in Ohio in 1948 was renamed Fairview Park. The city survey was conducted in 1950, the present form of city government there since 1 January 1959. The population rose from 300 at the time of spin-off in 1910 to 9,000 in 1950 and reached 21,681 in 1970 with a population peaked. Since then, the population has declined slightly.