Fairmount, IL

Fairmount is a village in Vance Township, Vermilion County, Illinois, United States. The 2020 census counted 612 residents. Fairmount is part of the Danville, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area. Josiah Hunt, a railroad engineer, reportedly used inside information about the coming of the Great Western Railroad to purchase 40 acres of land along the new route to found a town. The short version is that Fairmount carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Fairmount: its past remains attached to the places people use now. He originally named the town Salina, but this was changed because of an existing Illinois town named Saline; Francis Dougherty, an early settler, is said to have selected the name Fairmount.