Do you know of Fairmont ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Fairmont. 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 Fairmont.
Our sources for Fairmont (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Fairmont other than they indicate that Fairmont would be found somewhere in Davidson County, North Carolina.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1883 and closed in 1906.
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 Fairmont ...
We found 29 communities that share the name Fairmont.
There are two communities within North Carolina that are also named Fairmont.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of another 27 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 27 communities, 26 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Located In North Carolina ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- British Columbia
- Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Fairmont.
- California
- Los Angeles County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Fairmont [Los Angeles County].
- Florida
- Illinois
- Kansas
- Riley County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Fairmont [Riley County].
- Kentucky
- Webster County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Fairmont [Webster County].
- Louisiana
- East Baton Rouge Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Fairmont [East Baton Rouge Parish].
- Grant Parish
- 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 Louisiana community of Fairmont [Grant Parish].
- Maryland
- Harford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Fairmont [Harford County].
- Minnesota
- Martin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Fairmont [Martin County].
- Missouri
- Clark County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Fairmont [Clark County].
- Nebraska
- Fillmore County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Fairmont [Fillmore County].
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Fairmont.
- Ohio
- Guernsey County
- Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Fairmont [Guernsey County].
- Oklahoma
- Garfield County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Fairmont [Garfield County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Fairmont.
- Pennsylvania
- Fayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Fairmont [Fayette County].
- Westmoreland 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 Fairmont [Westmoreland County].
- South Carolina
- Spartanburg County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Fairmont [Spartanburg County].
- Tennessee
- Hamilton 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 Tennessee community of Fairmont [Hamilton County].
- Rutherford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Fairmont [Rutherford County].
- Texas
- Floyd County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Fairmont [Floyd County].
- Utah
- Weber County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Fairmont [Weber County].
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Marion County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Fairmont [Marion County].
- British Columbia
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Fairmont ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Fairmont:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Fairmont - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Davidson 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 Davidson 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Fairmont 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |