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Welcome to Fillmore ...

Fillmore is located in Washington County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Fillmore, you might consider that their post office opened in 1849.

Fillmore is 840 feet [256 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Fillmore lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Code for Fillmore: 262

Communities Also Named Fillmore ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 27 communities that are also named Fillmore - they are located in California (2), Georgia, Illinois (2), Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky (3), Louisiana, Michigan (2), Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania (2), Saskatchewan and Utah.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Fillmore.

Communities near Fillmore ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Fillmore.

  • West Bend
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Mequon
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
  • Germantown
    (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
    • Germantown is located in Washington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Germantown
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 20,057 people
  • Port Washington
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Cedarburg
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
  • Grafton
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Richfield
    (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
  • Plymouth
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
  • Jackson
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
  • Slinger
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Slinger is located in Washington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slinger
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 5,704 people

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Fillmore. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Fillmore.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Fillmore. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Fillmore.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Fillmore. See our Newspapers Page for Fillmore.

Adding Fillmore to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Fillmore in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Fillmore was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

From that list, the Fillmore post office opened in 1849. The Fillmore post office closed in 1907.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Fillmore.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Wisconsin's counties, including Washington, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Fillmore - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/