FAIRVIEW, TEXAS (Collin County). Fairview is on Farm Road 1378 and State Highway 5, three miles south of McKinney and six miles northeast of Plano in central Collin County. The growth of nearby Plano as a business center of North Texas during the late 1960s stimulated the growth of Fairview, which doubled in population from 175 in 1960 to 325 in 1970. By 1981 the population had jumped to 893. In 1990 Fairview had 1,554 residents, many of whom commuted to Plano or McKinney, the county seat. In 2000 the population was 2,644.

David Minor

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Also, click below to read about the History of Lucas Texas.  The City of Lucas is the next-door neighbor to the Town of Fairview, and they have a lot in

common in "keeping it country" with both featuring large acre homesites for the majority of their developed residential subdivisions.  The majority of the

large acre lots in Fairview Texas are around one acre, whereas most of the acre homesites in Lucas Texas are one and one-half to two acres.  Also, although

both communities, Fairview and Lucas, are served by more than one school district,  a large part of their areas shares the exemplary, Lovejoy Independent

School District or Lovejoy ISD as it is best known.

History of Lucas Texas - The Handbook of Texas Online - City of Lucas