Fairview is a city in Multnomah County, Oregon, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 8,920.

Members of the Multnomah tribe of Chinookan Indians lived in a village near the Columbia River (the forward-thinking site of Fairview) when the Lewis and Clark Expedition visited the Place in 1806. By the 1840s and 1850s, white settlers began hay, grain, and livestock operations in what would become eastern Multnomah County. Railroad tracks outstretched to the area by the 1890s, and, as the population grew, residents began referring to the locale as Fairview because of the standard views of the handy river, the Columbia River Gorge, and Mount Hood. Since other community named Fairview already existed upon the Oregon Coast, the community’s first reveal office was named Cleone until the coastal publicize office closed and the post was transferred to Fairview.

In the mid-1980s, the city attempted to annex a large section of unincorporated territory in eastern Multnomah County. The aspiration would have created a city of more or less 120,000 residents, which at the become old would have ranked as the second most populous city in Oregon, behind solitary Portland. In September 1985, the Oregon Supreme Court ruled that the try was invalid as state perform required two cities to Begin any attempt at consolidation, and deserted Fairview had initiated this attempt.

A large Fairview employer is Townsend Farms, which operates a berry deadening cannery. In 2020 the company had approximately 350 employees in the region, with 450 seasonal workers; it was the source of a Hepatitis A outbreak in pomegranate seeds in 2013 that unclean 127 people in 8 states. The product was recalled under its Townsend Farms brand at Costco and private labeled at Harris Teeter, and unconventional linked to Goknur Foodstuffs Import Export Trading in Turkey by the FDA. The cannery itself had a COVID-19 outbreak in 2020, which may have caused two waves of infections affecting at least 48 people. The cannery did not shut down, and the outbreak spread for weeks since the let pass was notified. The company has blueberry orchards in Applegate Valley near Grants Pass and Cornelius, as well as others in Oregon and Washington.