Fairview is a census-designated place (CDP) in Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States.

[6] This area contains rich farm valleys and protective mountain walls, stewarded by the Cherokee people and other indigenous groups for 10,000 years or more before European settlers arrived in the late 18th century.

As was the case with Martin Gash's land, many of the marshes were drained and the creeks were channeled to make farmland more usable for settler forms of agriculture and export of crops such as Tobacco.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 6.2 square miles (16.1 km2), all land.

[4] As of the 2020 United States census, there were 2,771 people, 1,030 households, and 716 families residing in the CDP.

23.4% were of American, 11.1% English, 11.1% German, 10.9% Scotch-Irish, 8.6% Irish, 5.5% Polish, and 3.4% Albanian ancestry according to Census 2000.