Do you know of Fairmount ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Fairmount. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Fairmount.
Our sources for Fairmount (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Fairmount other than they indicate that Fairmount would be found somewhere in Spartanburg County, South Carolina.
This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.
Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.
Communities Also Named Fairmount ...
We found 42 communities that share the name Fairmount.
Within South Carolina, the name Fairmount is unique.
Beyond South Carolina, we know of another 42 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 42 communities, 40 are located in the United States and five are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Limestone County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Fairmount [Limestone County].
- Arkansas
- Connecticut
- New Haven County
- Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Fairmount [New Haven County].
- Delaware
- Sussex County
- Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Fairmount [Sussex County].
- Florida
- Citrus County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Fairmount [Citrus County].
- Georgia
- Gordon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Fairmount [Gordon County].
- Illinois
- Massac County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Fairmount [Massac County].
- Vermilion County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Fairmount [Vermilion County].
- Indiana
- Grant County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Fairmount [Grant County].
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Leavenworth County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Fairmount [Leavenworth County].
- Kentucky
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Fairmount [Jefferson County].
- Louisiana
- Grant Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Fairmount [Grant Parish].
- Maine
- Aroostook County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Fairmount [Aroostook County].
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Suffolk County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Fairmount [Suffolk County].
- Missouri
- New Jersey
- Bergen County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Fairmount [Bergen County].
- Hunterdon County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Fairmount [Hunterdon County].
- Morris County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Fairmount [Morris County].
- New York
- Onondaga County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Fairmount [Onondaga County].
- North Dakota
- Richland County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Fairmount [Richland County].
- Nova Scotia
- Ohio
- Ontario
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Butler County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Fairmount [Butler County].
- Lancaster County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Fairmount [Lancaster County].
- Philadelphia County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Fairmount [Philadelphia County].
- Wayne County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Fairmount [Wayne County].
- Westmoreland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Fairmount [Westmoreland County].
- Rhode Island
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Sabine County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Fairmount [Sabine County].
- Utah
- Weber County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Fairmount [Weber County].
- Virginia
- Roanoke City
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Fairmount [Roanoke City].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Fairmount ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Fairmount:
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Fairmount - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Spartanburg County ...
Can you help?
As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Spartanburg County.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Fairmount could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |