Fillmore, IL

Fillmore is a village in Montgomery County, Illinois in United States. The 2020 census counted 305 residents. Fillmore is in southeastern Montgomery County, 14 miles east-southeast of Hillsboro, the county seat, and 18 miles northwest of Vandalia. Lanes Branch flows through the west side of the village, running southwest to the Dry Fork of Hurricane Creek, part of the Kaskaskia River watershed. The through line in Fillmore is the way its history and present-day settings remain visible on the same map. Fillmore makes the most sense through those concrete details, with its history still visible in the settings people use today.