Fairland, Oklahoma
| Fairland, Oklahoma | |
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| Town | |
 Location within Ottawa County and the state of Oklahoma |
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| Coordinates: 36°45′1″N 94°50′54″W / 36.75028°N 94.84833°WCoordinates: 36°45′1″N 94°50′54″W / 36.75028°N 94.84833°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Oklahoma |
| County | Ottawa |
| Area | |
| • Total | 0.9 sq mi (2.4 km2) |
| • Land | 0.9 sq mi (2.4 km2) |
| • Water | 0.0 sq mi (0.0 km2) |
| Elevation | 837 ft (255 m) |
| Population (2000) | |
| • Total | 1,025 |
| • Density | 1,109.4/sq mi (428.3/km2) |
| Time zone | Central (CST) (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| ZIP code | 74343 |
| Area code(s) | 539/918 |
| FIPS code | 40-24900 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1092694 |
Fairland is a town in southern Ottawa County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 1,057 at the 2010 U. S. Census, an increase from 1,025 at the 2000 census]]. Fairland is part of the Joplin, Missouri metropolitan area.
Fairland was laid out along the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway (Frisco) tracks that were laid from Missouri to Vinita in 1871. The town originally covered 225 acres and consisted of a few businesses and residences that had moved there from the Prairie Springs area.
By the time Oklahoma became a state, Fairland was an active farming community. In 1912, the Missouri, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway, later the Kansas, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway (KO&G), constructed a track through Fairland that crossed the earlier Frisco line.
Agriculture remained the mainstay of the local economy until the end of World War II. In 1945, B. F. Goodrich opened a tire manufacturing plant near Miami that became the major contributor to Fairland's economy. The town organized a volunteer fire department and built a sewer system about 1950. The Fairland School district absorbed several smaller districts. However, KO&G abandoned and removed its tracks about the same time.
The Goodrich plant closed permanently in February 1985. The loss to Fairland's economy was offset by the opening of several communities on the shore of Grand Lake O' the Cherokees.
Fairland is located at 36°45′1″N 94°50′54″W / 36.75028°N 94.84833°W (36.750185, -94.848203).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.9 square miles (2.3 km2), all of it land.
As of the census of 2000, there were 1,025 people, 415 households, and 292 families residing in the town. The population density was 1,109.4 people per square mile (430.2/km²). There were 452 housing units at an average density of 489.2 per square mile (189.7/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 71.80% White, 0.20% African American, 20.39% Native American, 0.10% Pacific Islander, 0.10% from other races, and 7.41% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.88% of the population.
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