Fairfax District

Fairfax District may refer to:

Fairfax District, Los Angeles

The Fairfax District is a 1.23-square-mile neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California.

Historically it has been a center of Los Angeles's Jewish community. It is known for its Farmer's Market, the CBS Television City broadcasting center, and places to eat. Fairfax has one public and three private high schools. It is the site of Los Angeles Fire Department station 61.

Geography

According to the Mapping L.A. project of the Los Angeles Times, the Fairfax District is flanked on the north by West Hollywood, on the northeast by Hollywood, on the east by Hancock Park, on the south by Mid-Wilshire, on the west by Beverly Grove and on the northwest by West Hollywood.

Street boundaries are: Willoughby Avenue or Romaine Street on the north, La Brea Avenue on the east, West Third Street on the south, and Fairfax Avenue on the west.

Nearby places

Relation of the Fairfax District to other places, not necessarily contiguous:

Population

The 2000 U.S. census counted 12,490 residents in the 1.23-square-mile Fairfax District—an average of 10,122 people per square mile, about the same population density as all of Los Angeles. In 2008, the city estimated that the population had increased to 13,360. The median age for residents was 33, a general average within Los Angeles. The percentage of residents aged 65 and older was among the county's highest.

Fairfax District (Kansas City, Kansas)

Coordinates: 39°08′30″N 94°36′45″W / 39.1417°N 94.6125°W / 39.1417; -94.6125 The Fairfax Industrial District is a manufacturing area of Kansas City, Kansas, on the Goose Island river bend of the Missouri River. The Fairfax Bridge and the Platte Purchase Bridge to the east provide access to the district from Missouri's Platte County and Riverside community. The district's General Motors Fairfax Assembly Plant is a current facility in the district which has remnants of the runways used by the defunct Fairfax Municipal Airport and Fairfax Air Force Base.

History

The district is on the Goose Island river bend (inner concave bank of a meander loop) that had been an island created by an 1880 flood that moved the Missouri River's "main current and the main and principal channel" from around the north, east, and south of the site to a low elevation on the west (Goose Island Chute). By 1907 the state of Kansas had answered a Missouri petition and filed for ownership of the island, which was declared part of Kansas on March 22, 1909, by the United States Supreme Court (in 1940, the USGS mapped the state boundary as a straight north-south line demarcating a small eastern portion of "Fairfax Airport" in Missouri.) When flow into the chute was stopped by the Goose Island closing dike, the island became a river bend landform. "The city owned Kansas City Public Levees, the city of Kansas City and the Fairfax Industrial District sponsored a project in which the United States Government constructed flood protection levees and walls around the district, including three pump houses to pump water" with 2 of the houses on the later airfield (the dike extended from Quindaro downstream around Goose Island to the mouth of the Kansas River.) The protected land along the river north of the city ("North Bottoms") was used for farmland which was partly used as an airfield for a 1921 "American Legion air meet".