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Wiktionary
n. 1 An English habitational surname for someone who lived in any of several places named "fair bank" etc. 2 A city in Alaska, USA.
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 12357
Land area (2000): 31.856853 sq. miles (82.508868 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.814557 sq. miles (2.109693 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 32.671410 sq. miles (84.618561 sq. km)
FIPS code: 24230
Located within: Alaska (AK), FIPS 02
Location: 64.838092 N, 147.726378 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 99709 99712
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Fairbanks
Wikipedia
Fairbanks may refer to:
Places in the United States- Fairbanks, Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, a city in Alaska
- Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, a borough (equivalent to a county) in Alaska
- Fairbanks, California, unincorporated community in El Dorado County
- Fairbanks, Mendocino County, California, former settlement
- Fairbanks Ranch, California, census designated place
- Fairbanks, Alachua County, Florida
- Fairbanks, Moultrie County, Illinois
- Fairbanks, Indiana, unincorporated community
- Fairbanks, Maine, town
- Fairbanks House, Massachusetts, built in 1637 is the oldest woodframe house in the U.S.A.
- Fairbanks, Minnesota, unincorporated community
- Fairbanks, Chaves County, New Mexico
- Fairbanks, Oregon, populated place in Wasco County
- Fairbanks, Houston, Texas
- Fairbanks, Whitman County, Washington
- Fairbanks, Wisconsin, town
- Fairbanks (MBTA station), Brookline, Massachusetts
- Fairbanks disease, a genetic disorder affecting bone growth, also known as multiple epiphyseal dysplasia
People with the surname Fairbanks:
- Fairbanks (surname)
Fairbanks is a light rail stop on the MBTA Green Line "C" Branch in Brookline, Massachusetts, located in the median of Beacon Street. Fairbanks station has two side platforms serving the line's two tracks. It is not handicapped accessible, although a wheelchair lift allows handicapped people to move between the two elevations of the two halves of Beacon Street at the station.
Fairbanks is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Arthur Fairbanks (1864–1944), American art historian and administrator
- Avard Fairbanks (1897–1987), American sculptor
- Charles Rufus Fairbanks (1790–1841), Canadian lawyer, judge, entrepreneur and politician
- Charles W. Fairbanks (1852–1918), American politician
- Charles H. Fairbanks (1913–1984), American archaeologist and anthropologist
- Chuck Fairbanks (1933–2013), American football coach
- Cornelia Cole Fairbanks (1852–1913), American women's suffragist
- Dana Fairbanks, fictional character in American TV drama The L Word
- Douglas Fairbanks (1883–1939), American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer
- Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. (1909–2000), American actor naval officer
- Edward Fairbanks (1850–1924), Canadian merchant and politician
- Erastus Fairbanks (1792–1864), American manufacturer and politician
- Franklin Fairbanks (1828–1895), American businessman and politician
- Gene Fairbanks (born 1982) Australian professional rugby union footballer
- George Rainsford Fairbanks (1820-1906), American lawyer, politician and fruit grower
- Horace Fairbanks (1820–1888), American politician, Governor of Vermont
- Jason Fairbanks (1780–1801),American murderer
- Jerry Fairbanks (1904–1995), American film and TV producer and director
- John B. Fairbanks (1855–1940), American Latter-day Saint artist
- Jonathan Fairbanks (1594–1668), English colonist in New England
- Jonathan Leo Fairbanks (born 1933), American artist
- Joseph Fairbanks (1718–1796), Canadian merchant and politician
- E. LeBron Fairbanks (born 1942), American retired minister in the Church of the Nazarene
- Lloyd Fairbanks (born 1953), former Canadian football player
- Madeline and Marion Fairbanks (1900–1989 and 1900–1973), American twins, stage and film actresses
- Mason Fairbanks, fictional character in American TV comedy series The Simpsons
- Michelle Fairbanks, American actress
- Nola Fairbanks (born 1924), American actress
- Ortho R. Fairbanks, American artist
- Ralph Jacobus Fairbanks (1857–1943), American prospector, entrepreneur and pioneer
- Richard M. Fairbanks (1941–2013), American lawyer, diplomat and businessman
- Thaddeus Fairbanks (1796–1886), American inventor
- William Fairbanks (1894–1945), American actor
Usage examples of "fairbanks".
He assured them that all the movie people stayed there, and that at any moment they might run into Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, or even Gloria Swanson.
And they were lucky that night, Gloria Swanson and Lillian Gish were there, and Douglas Fairbanks with Mary Pickford.
They had borrowed Douglas Fairbanks for it, and he said that the opening parties would be terrific.
Douglas Fairbanks had built for Mary Pickford as a wedding gift three years before.
I was wondering just how cold the winters were in Fairbanks as I pounded on the front door Winkie jerked it open and gaped at me.
Caffey and Kate wore their parkas and stood behind the radio operator as he tried to establish contact with Fairbanks, which was to patch him directly through to the army chief of staff in Washington.
She flew the New York-to-Chicago leg and carried many of the celebrities of the day-Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, Gloria Swanson, Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.
When the two weren't working on a writers-in-the-school project for the Fairbanks Arts Association, Scarborough saw to it that McCaffrey tasted the adventures Fairbanks in the winter had to offer: a dogsled ride, the northern lights, a movie about dogsled racing, and (thanks to her friend Hilda's hospitality) moose spaghetti.
I spent a marvelous time as author in residence in Fairbanks, going dogsledding, eating moose-meat spaghetti, watching the aurora borealis, corrupting junior and senior high-school students and undergraduates at the University of Alaska - anyone I could get my hands on.
Max Fairbanks As well as breaking the law, he's going against an order from a judge, and he asks this meatheaded cop with the dirty hat to aid and abet him in his crime, and the cop does it!
The next message was received by a military base radio watch near Fairbanks, Alaska.
I am in Fairbanks taking flying lessons & by spring should be a licensed bush pilot.
Springer had alerted Samena that he felt cold vibrations somewhere to the east, so they glided over the golf courses and condominiums around the Fairbanks ranch and headed up into the hills, where the night air was pungent with the aroma of eucalyptus, and lights sparkled from expensive Spanish-style homes, hidden among the lemon groves and the yucca.
Not with an ice sheet covering the Endicott Mountains and the Philip Smith range to the west, another strangling the Alaska Range from Fort Yukon south through Fairbanks and on to the sea, and a third that stretched from the Canadian Yukon all the way to the Atlantic Ocean.
Since the Watergate was all things to all people - a hotel and an apartment building and a shopping mall and an office building, and probably also backup guitar in a garage band on weekends - it had been decided they might as well all stay right there in the hotel part while Dortmunder and Kelp visited Max Fairbanks in the apartment part.