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Fairfax, Highland County, Ohio

human settlement in Highland County, Ohio, United States

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 11, 2025
Entity authorityQ24898051 ↗
Source-derived summary

Fairfax is an unincorporated community in Highland County, in the U.S. state of Ohio.

History

Fairfax was founded in the 1830s, and named after Fairfax, Virginia, the native home of a first settler. A post office called Fairfax was established in 1851, and remained in operation until 1906.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Fairfax, Highland County, Ohio” as human settlement in Highland County, Ohio, United States. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1851, 1906—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Fairfax, Highland and County can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as human settlement in Highland County, Ohio, United States. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 11, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q24898051. Authority coordinates are 39.048, -83.588. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1851 and 1906.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Fairfax, Highland County, Ohio”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Fairfax, Highland County, Ohio primary sources, Fairfax, Highland County, Ohio archive and Fairfax research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Fairfax, Highland County, Ohio”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Fairfax, Highland County, Ohio” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.