Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Fairview, OR

Fairview is a city in Multnomah County, Oregon, in the Portland metropolitan area north of Gresham and west of Troutdale, with a 2020 census population of 10,424.

The city had 4,092 households in the 2020 census, and its median age was 38.0 years.

Fairview was incorporated in 1908.

Members of the Multnomah tribe of Chinookan Indians lived in a village on Sauvie Island by the Columbia River, the future site of Fairview, when the Lewis and Clark Expedition visited the area in 1806.

White settlers began hay, grain, and livestock operations in the area in the 1840s and 1850s, and railroad tracks reached the area by the 1890s.

Residents are said to have called the place Fairview for its pleasing views of the Columbia River, the Columbia River Gorge, and Mount Hood.

Because another community named Fairview already existed on the Oregon coast, the community's first post office was named Cleone until the coastal post office closed and the name was transferred to Fairview.

In the mid-1980s the city tried to annex a large section of unincorporated eastern Multnomah County, which would have made a city of about 120,000 residents, but in September 1985 the Oregon Supreme Court ruled the attempt invalid.

A large Fairview employer is Townsend Farms, which operates a berry freezing cannery that had about 350 employees in the region in 2020 plus 450 seasonal workers.

The Salish Ponds, two small freshwater lakes popular for fishing, and their adjacent hiking trails are a local recreation feature, and Fairview Lake lies within the city.