Fairborn, Ohio Fairborn, Ohio Flag of Fairborn, Ohio Location of Fairborn, Ohio Location of Fairborn, Ohio Location of Fairborn in Greene County Location of Fairborn in Greene County Fairborn is a town/city in Greene County, Ohio, United States, near Dayton and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
The populace was 32,352 at the 2010 census. It is the only town/city in the world with the name of Fairborn, a portmanteau word created from the names Fairfield and Osborn; the two villages that consolidated in 1950 after the Great Dayton Flood of 1913 forced Osborn to move out of a flood plain and alongside Fairfield.
Fairborn is the home of Wright State University, which serves nearly 20,000 undergraduate and graduate students.
Fairborn is served by a branch of the Greene County Public Library.
Fairborn was formed from the union of the two villages of Fairfield and Osborn.
Before European pioneer arrived, native inhabitants of the region encompassed the Adena culture of Ohio and close-by states, and the subsequent Hopewell culture known from Illinois to Ohio and famous for their geometric earthworks.
The region of the village of Fairfield was settled before Ohio was a state.
Osborn was a town (no longer existing) positioned near the Haddix Road-Ohio 235 intersection at the northern edge of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in what is now the flood-prone watershed of the Huffman Dam in the U.S.
State of Ohio.
Many of the initial homes of old Osborn still stand in Fairborn's Historic Osborn District.
Huffman Prairie, part of Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park, is an 84-acre (.34 km ) patch of rough pasture that was outside the village of Fairfield (now known as Huffman Prairie Flying Field), where the Wright Brothers undertook the difficult and sometimes dangerous task of creating a dependable, fully controllable aircraft and training themselves to be pilots.
After they began making use of Huffman Prairie in 1904, the Wright brothers made hundreds of flights here after developing the 1905 Wright Flyer III (the plane they considered to be the first practical aircraft ), testing the airplane assembled by the Wright Company.
The United States Army Signal Corps purchased the field in 1917 and retitled it, along with 2,000 acres (8.1 km2) adjoining (8 km ), Wilbur Wright Field.
This was necessary because of the Miami Valley Flood Control Project and the Miami Conservancy District that was begun after the Great Dayton Flood (Dayton, Ohio) of March, 1913.
The two villages voted to merge in 1949 and officially consolidated in 1950 The first company to depict the name of the new town/city was the large vertical sign of the Fairborn Theatre.
Hanoi Taxi (Lockheed C-141 Starlifter) flying over the close-by National Museum of the United States Air Force in December 2005 From 1950-1970 the town/city experienced explosive expansion to six times its former population, surpassing Xenia (the county seat) as the most crowded city in the county, due largely to the small-town employment opportunities made available by the close-by Air Force Base.
In small-town history,The Fairborn Agreement, a peace accord between the parties to the hostilities of the conflict in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the former Yugoslavia, was negotiated at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
Negotiations took place from November 1, 1995, to November 21, 1995, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base positioned next to Fairborn, Ohio.
As of 2007, Fairborn is a quiet town with many still working at the close-by Wright Patterson Air Force Base, the home of the Air Force Materiel Command and in many measures the largest, most diverse and organizationally complex base in the Air Force. Although Wright State has a Dayton, Ohio address it is legally inside Fairborn jurisdiction and has police officers deputized by the Fairborn police department.
Fairborn is the home of the biggest elementary school in Ohio, Fairborn Primary School. Downtown Fairborn's historic Foy's store has the state's biggest compilation of Halloween supplies.
Fairborn is also home of the Fairborn Wee Hawks Pee Wee Football teams.
Fairborn is positioned at 39 48 28 N 84 1 19 WCoordinates: 39 48 28 N 84 1 19 W. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 13.17 square miles (34.11 km2), of which, 13.16 square miles (34.08 km2) is territory and 0.01 square miles (0.03 km2) is water. Fairborn Primary School (formerly 5 Points Elementary School) grades pre-K-3 Fairborn Intermediate School (formerly Palmer-South), grades 4 5 Fairborn Baker Middle School, grades 6 8 Fairborn High School, grades 9 12 Wright State University, a enhance college with over 19,000 students, is also positioned in Fairborn.
In the town/city the populace was spread out with 21.0% under the age of 18, 18.4% from 18 to 24, 29.3% from 25 to 44, 19.7% from 45 to 64, and 11.6% who were 65 years of age or older.
Kevin De - Wine, Ohio Representative to the 70th precinct and Speaker Pro Tempore of the Ohio House of Representatives City of Fairborn, Ohio.
History of Greene County, Ohio: Its People, Industries and Institutions, Volume 1.
History of Greene County: Together with Historic Notes on the Northwest, and the State of Ohio.
"Fairborn Primary School previously known as Five Points Elementary".
18th Enumeration of the United States.
"Ohio: Population and Housing Unit Counts" (PDF).
City of Fairborn Fairborn City Schools Municipalities and communities of Greene County, Ohio, United States State of Ohio
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Cities in Greene County, Ohio - Wright-Patterson Air Force Base - Fairborn, Ohio - Populated places established in 1950 - 1950 establishments in Ohio
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