Fairborn is a city in Greene County , Ohio , United States , near Dayton and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base . The population was 32,770 at the 2010 census . It is the only city in the world with the name of Fairborn , a portmanteau word created from the names Fairfield and Osborn , the two villages that merged in 1950 after the Great Dayton Flood of 1913 forced Osborn to move out of a flood plain and alongside Fairfield
Great Dayton Flood
Great Dayton Flood
Fairborn, Ohio