Fairchild: US 2 at MP 275.3 - looking East
The Columbia Plateau defines the setting of Fairchild — open grassland and conifer stands give this community west of Spokane a spacious, low-rise character. Fairchild Air Force Base, established in 1942, is the area’s defining institution and home to the 92nd Air Refueling Wing. US Route 2 passes along the base’s northern edge, connecting the area with Spokane and communities across eastern Washington. The highway corridor runs through a working landscape of fields, roadside woodland and dispersed development rather than a continuous urban centre. Fairchild takes its name from the air base, renamed in 1951 for General Muir S. Fairchild.
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