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History · Fillmore

Fillmore’s post office opened in 1850, and 32% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1947 on and the census since 1900.

1850first post office
0on the National Register
32%homes built before 1940
1famous people
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How Fillmore began

When was Fillmore founded?

1850

The Fillmore post office opened in 1850, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 500 in 19002020 census: 305176 years
Founding year: the first Fillmore post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Fillmore’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Fillmore are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Fillmore’s homes were built before 1947.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Fillmore’s history is told.

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The story so far

Fillmore, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Fillmore yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Fillmore is a village in Montgomery County, Illinois in United States. The population was 305 at the 2020 census.

Its first post office opened in 1850. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 330 to 305 (-8%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Fillmore, 1850 to 1947

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1850Post officeThe Fillmore post office opens
  3. 1896Born hereRay Richmond is born here
  4. 20th century
  5. 1947On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the map

Fillmore on the map, 1947 to 1998

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Fillmore. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Fillmore on the 1947 USGS mapFillmore on the 1974 USGS mapFillmore on the 1998 USGS map1947Hillsboro sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Fillmore.

People over time

Fillmore, census by census

01002003004005001900192019401960198020002020Peak: 511

Between 305 and 511 people in every census since 1900.

13 censuses, 1900–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Fillmore’s Wikipedia page.

Questions about Fillmore’s history

What year was Fillmore founded?

The Fillmore post office opened in 1850, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

Memory lane

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.