FairviewTexas

A short history

The area was farmland and ranch land for most of its history, part of the Blackland Prairie that once covered this part of Collin County. Residents petitioned the county to incorporate in April 1958, and voters approved incorporation in a May 7, 1958 election. Growth was slow for decades: the town had 463 residents in 1970 and 2,644 in 2000. The big jump came after 2000, when the Heritage Ranch golf community on the east side and the commercial district along US 75 were built, and the population passed 7,000 by 2010.

Fairview's schools trace back to the same farm era. Lovejoy ISD was founded in 1917 when the Forest Grove and Lick Springs schools consolidated. In June 2026 the Town's Parks and Recreation Advisory Board installed an interpretive sign at Monarch Park, 610 Cambridge Drive, covering early settler families and the two schools that merged to create the original Lovejoy School.

The town's motto, "Keeping It Country," matches its land-use pattern: large residential lots in the interior, with commerce concentrated along the highway edges.

How the town is laid out

Fairview divides into three fairly distinct zones.

The US 75 and SH 5 commercial corridor (west and north). In 2002 the Town created the Commercial Planned Development District (CPDD), a district of nearly 1,000 acres bounded generally by US 75 on the west, Stacy Road on the south, State Highway 5 on the east and Frisco Road on the north. This is where Fairview Town Center (formerly The Village at Fairview), the Town Hall complex at Town Place, two hotels on Murray Farm Road, apartments such as Overture on Convention Drive, and most of the town's sales-tax base are located.

Heritage Ranch (east-central). A gated golf course community of about 1,144 homes (1,022 detached homes and 122 attached villas on the 2026 appraisal roll) built from 1999 onward around an Arthur Hills-designed course, east of Country Club Road (FM 1378) and north of Stacy Road. It is served by public sewer, has detached lots of about 0.17 acre, and is age-restricted under its governing documents. Most of the town's other small-lot and townhome-style neighborhoods, such as Villas in the Park, Village of Fairview, Cypress Crossing, Sloan Creek Estates and Apple's Crossing, sit on the west side near the commercial corridor.

The Ranch Estate interior (center, south and east). Most of the remaining land is zoned RE-1 (one-acre Ranch Estate) or RE-2 (two-acre Ranch Estate). Subdivisions such as Oakwood Estates, River Oaks, Bridlegate, Tranquility Farms, Chamberlain Place and Hawks Wood sit here, along with older acreage tracts on Stoddard Road, Country Club Road (FM 1378), Orr Road and SH 5. Most homes in this zone treat wastewater on site with aerobic septic systems, which is one practical reason lots stay at an acre or more.

Schools at a glance

Two independent school districts serve Fairview. According to the Town, most of Fairview is in Lovejoy ISD, while McKinney ISD serves the western side of town and a small additional area. On the Collin Central Appraisal District's 2026 roll, 2,302 of the town's 3,611 homes (64 percent) are in Lovejoy ISD and 1,309 in McKinney ISD; the smaller McKinney ISD area is on the east edge around Orr Road, including the east end of Thompson Springs.

• Lovejoy ISD has two campuses inside Fairview: Puster Elementary on Stoddard Road and Sloan Creek Intermediate (grades 5 to 6) on Country Club Road. Willow Springs Middle School and Lovejoy High School are in neighboring Lucas. TEA rated the district and all of its campuses A for 2025, and the district reported A ratings for the district and all campuses again when TEA released 2026 ratings on August 14, 2026.
• McKinney ISD received an overall B from TEA for 2026, its fifth consecutive B, and all three of its high schools earned an A.

Attendance zones can change. Confirm the assignment for any address with the district's own locator. The Schools page has campus details.

Getting around

US 75 runs along the western edge of town and is the main route south to Plano, Richardson and Dallas and north to McKinney. State Highway 5 (Greenville Avenue) crosses the north and east sides toward downtown McKinney. Inside town, the east-west spine is Stacy Road, and the main north-south roads are Country Club Road (FM 1378), Stoddard Road and Fairview Parkway.

Fairview is not a DART member city and has no fixed-route transit. The nearest DART rail station is Parker Road Station in Plano, at the north end of the Red and Orange lines. A DART rail right-of-way does cross the west side of town (the Town's August 2026 council actions reference it on Fairview Parkway), but no passenger service runs in Fairview.

Current road work worth knowing about: Latham Drive between Fairview Parkway and Convention Drive closed to all traffic on July 20, 2026 for reconstruction, and the Town expects the closure to last until summer 2027. At its September 1, 2026 meeting the Town Council formed a task force to address congestion at the Country Club Road and Stacy Road intersection and seek road funding from partner agencies, approved acquiring drainage and construction easements along Country Club Road near Stoddard Road, and approved overhead power lines that Grayson-Collin Electric Cooperative is installing along SH 5 between Stacy Road and Southwind Drive.

For residents 65 and older or with a qualifying disability, the Collin County Rides program, operated with the Denton County Transportation Authority, offers low-cost trips; the council extended Fairview's participation through September 30, 2029.

Town services

Fairview runs its own police department, fire and rescue department (Fire Station 2 is at 1200 Stacy Road), municipal court, and water utility. The Texas Fire Chiefs Association has designated the Fairview Fire Department a Recognized Best Practices Fire Department, and the Town's first Citizens Fire Academy runs on Thursday evenings from November 5 to December 17, 2026. Water is purchased through the North Texas Municipal Water District system and billed by the Town. Trash and recycling are handled by Republic Services under a Town contract that the council extended for five years in August 2026. Electricity comes from Grayson-Collin Electric Cooperative or from retail providers on the Oncor grid depending on location, and natural gas from Atmos Energy or CoServ.

The mayor holds a "Breakfast with the Mayor" at the Heritage Ranch clubhouse on the Friday after each regular council meeting, open to residents from any part of town.

Parks and open space

The Town maintains ten parks and nine paved or natural trails. Highlights include the 27.8-acre Parkside Park on East Stacy Road with a deck over a beaver pond, the 8-acre Village Green near the Town Center, the nearly 18-acre Coyote Meadow, and Veterans Park at Town Hall. The East Stacy Road Trail runs 2.3 miles between Country Club Road and Orr Road, and the Stacy Road Trail covers 2.72 miles between US 75 and Country Club Road. See Things to Do for the full list.

What is nearby

• Fairview Town Center at Stacy Road and US 75: Dillard's, JCPenney, Whole Foods Market, iPic, Larks and 14 restaurants in the center's 2026 directory. Academy Sports + Outdoors signed a lease in 2026 for the former Macy's space and is listed in the October 2026 directory as coming soon.
• Allen (west and south): The Village at Allen (190 E. Stacy Road) and Allen Premium Outlets (820 W Stacy Road), directly across US 75 from Fairview Town Center, and Watters Creek Village at 970 Garden Park Drive.
• McKinney (north): the Heard Museum at 1 Nature Place, and the historic downtown square.
• Lucas (southeast): Lovejoy High School and Willow Springs Middle School, plus more large-lot residential land.

Last reviewed October 2026. See something out of date? Email info@grisak.com.