HOA Management in  Fairview, NC

Fairview is an unincorporated area in southeastern Buncombe County, North Carolina

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Fairview, NC Facts and Information

The United States Census Bureau classifies Fairview as a census-designated place (CDP). The census-designated place or CDP for Fairview, as established by the United States Census Bureau, is a total area of 6.2 square miles. This 6.2. square miles consist of land and no bodies of water. The Fairview census-designated place is considered to have a moderate annual climate and is located in the mountainous region of western North Carolina. 

Being categorized by the United States Census Bureau as a census-designated place (CDP), Fairview has no legally determined or identified borders other than what has been set forth by the United States Census Bureau. The area set forth as the census-designated place may or may not (And more often may not.) be consistent or in agreement with the area that the population perceives as the traditional area as defined locally. The United States Census Bureau creates census-designated places for a number of different reasons. Although, in most instances, they are created because of large population concentrations that are without formally established municipalities in place, such as what is found within the Fairview CDP. One of the primary benefits of a census-designated place for an unincorporated area is the planning abilities it allows counties and even the neighboring municipalities of the census-designated place.    

Fairview is located in the mountainous region of western North Carolina. Asheville and Biltmore Village is to the northwest of Fairview. The Biltmore Forest community is due west, and the Royal Pines community is southwest.  The Oak Park community is southwest, and the Town of Fletcher is southwest of Fairview. The communities of Fruitland and Edneyville are due south of Fairview. Situated due south of Fairview is the communities of Gerton, Bat Cave, and Chimney Rock. The communities of Wilson, Swannanoa, Black Mountain, and Ridgecrest are north of Fairview. U.S. Highway 74, also known locally as the Charlotte Highway, is the primary thoroughfare in the area.

The Fairview census-designated place is located within the Asheville, North Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). The Asheville, North Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) consists of Buncombe, Haywood, Henderson, Madison, and Transylvania counties. Per the 2010 United States Census, the population of the Asheville, North Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area MSA was 424,858. Per the 2020 United States Census, the population of the Asheville, North Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area was 469,015. This is a 9.4% population growth rate between censuses.

As determined by population, the Asheville, North Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) is the 120th largest MSA in the United States. In North Carolina, the Asheville, North Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), based on population, is the fourth largest MSA behind the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia NC-SC MSA, the Raleigh-Cary, NC MSA, and the Greensboro-High Point, NC MSA.

Buncombe County, North Carolina

Buncombe County was created in 1791 from portions of Burke County and Rutherford County. The original configuration of Buncombe County, 1791 to 1808, reached all the way to the Tennessee, Georgia, and South Carolina borders. Since its formation, Buncombe County has been reduced numerous times to create or add areas to new counties. 

The county is named for American Revolutionary War Hero Colonel Edward Buncombe (1742-1778). Colonel Buncombe was a plantation owner from what is now Washington County, North Carolina. He was an early leading supporter and organizer of the independence moment within North Carolina. Three days after Halifax Assembly passed the historic Halifax Resolves, he was appointed colonel of the 5th North Carolina Regiment of the Continental Army on April 15, 1776. 

At the Battle of Germantown, Colonel Buncombe was captured after being wounded on October 4, 1777. He was paroled by the British Army to Philadelphia, which the British had recently seized. The British army paroled him to that city. Colonel Buncombe fell down a flight of steps, reopening his prior wounds, resulting in him bleeding to death. 

The Buncombe County government first met in April 1792 in a barn that was located on what would become the Biltmore Estate a little under a century later. This barn was owned by Colonel William Davidson. Colonel Davidson was the cousin of American Revolutionary War General William Lee Davidson, who died at the Battle of Cowan’s Ford in 1781. 

Before Buncombe County had a county seat, deeds were filed in Morganton, in Burke County, because it was the nearest county seat. Because of poor roads and winter weather conditions, a centralized location for Buncombe County’s seat of power needed to be found. A committee of seven men convened to find and select a county seat for the courthouse in December 1792.

The county seat was selected in 1793 and named “Morristown.” Morristown was situated on a plateau where two old Indian trails crossed. In 1797, Morristown was chartered and renamed “Asheville” after North Carolina Governor Samuel Ashe. The first courthouse was located at the present-day Pack Square in Asheville.

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