Fairmount, Iowa

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Fairmount, Iowa
Unincorporated community
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Fairmount, Iowa
Coordinates: 41°34′00″N93°09′34″W / 41.56667°N 93.15944°W / 41.56667; -93.15944
Country United States
State Iowa
County Jasper
Elevation
925 ft (282 m)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
GNIS feature ID1999552 [1]

Fairmount is an unincorporated community in Jasper County, in the U.S. state of Iowa. Fairmount lies along the junction of Iowa Highway 163 and West 70th Street South. [1] The community has also been known as Fairmont.

History

In 1878, Fairmount was described as a "town [...] beautifully situated on the level plateau of prairie separating the Des Moines and Skunk rivers. [...] There are fifteen or twenty buildings in Fairmount, and four or five business houses." [2] In addition, Fairmount had a Methodist Episcopal church, built in 1878, and a rail station on the Keokuk and Des Moines Railway. [2]

The Fairmount post office opened in 1876 and closed in 1918. [3]

The population of Fairmount was 50 in 1887, [4] and was 108 in 1902. [5] The population was 31 in 1917, [6] and 45 in 1925. [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Fairmount, Iowa
  2. 1 2 The History of Jasper County, Iowa, Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, &c: A Biographical Directory of Its Citizens, War Record of Its Volunteers in the Late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics ... History of the Northwest, History of Iowa ... Western Historical. 1878. p. 505.
  3. ↑ "GNIS Detail - Fairmount Post Office (historical)". geonames.usgs.gov. Retrieved July 4, 2021.
  4. ↑ Cram, George Franklin (1887). Cram's Universal Atlas: Geographical, Astronomical and Historical, Containing a Complete Series of Maps of Modern Geography, Illustrated by Numerous Views and Charts ; the Whole Supplemented with Valuable Statistics, Diagrams, and a Complete Gazetteer of the United States. G.F. Cram. pp. 367–369.
  5. ↑ Cram's Modern Atlas: The New Unrivaled New Census Edition. J. R. Gray & Company. 1902. pp. 203–207.
  6. ↑ Atlas of Johnson County, Iowa, 1917 :: Iowa Counties Historic Atlases. pp. 63–66.[ permanent dead link ]
  7. ↑ Premier Atlas of the World: Containing Maps of All Countries of the World, with the Most Recent Boundary Decisions, and Maps of All the States,territories, and Possessions of the United States with Population Figures from the Latest Official Census Reports, Also Data of Interest Concerning International and Domestic Political Questions. Rand McNally & Company. 1925. p. 190.
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