Fairmount, ND

Fairmount is a city in Richland County, North Dakota, United States. The 2020 census counted 343 residents. Fairmount was founded in 1884. Fairmount is part of the Wahpeton, ND–MN Micropolitan Statistical Area. Fairmount Public School, a K-12 school, is the public school in Fairmount. 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. In July 1884, a tornado destroyed the schoolhouse in Fairmount. Fairmount is located in southeastern North Dakota on North Dakota Highway 11. Fairmount is approximately four miles west of the junction of Minnesota Highway 55 and U.S. Route 75.