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History · Fairmount Township

15% of Fairmount Township’s homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Oak Lawn Farm Dairy Barn. Below: maps from 1889 on.

1on the National Register
15%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Fairmount Township’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 Fairmount Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 18894 editions of the USGS map, 1889 to 1985. Watch Fairmount Township change.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Fairmount Township’s history is told.

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On the map

Fairmount Township on the map, 1889 to 1985

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

Fairmount Township on the 1889 USGS mapFairmount Township on the 1894 USGS mapFairmount Township on the 1962 USGS mapFairmount Township on the 1985 USGS map1889Newton sheet · 1:125,000

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

The story so far

Fairmount Township, in brief

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

Fairmount Township is a township in Butler County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2000 census, its population was 511.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 489 to 474 (-3%).

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

Timeline

Fairmount Township, 1882 to 1926

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1882Post officeThe Nellans post office opens
  3. 1889On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  4. 1892Post officeThe Nellans post office closes
  5. 20th century
  6. 1926BuiltOak Lawn Farm Dairy Barn is built
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On the National Register

1 historic place in Fairmount Township

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
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none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
2005
Oak Lawn Farm Dairy Barn
Oak Lawn Farm Dairy Barn, built 1926
Buildings
All 1 listings
Oak Lawn Farm Dairy BarnBuilding · listed 2005

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices, places now gone and burying grounds

Another post office, Nellans, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Gone or out of use
NellanslocalePaulson Northeast Oil Fieldoilfield
3cemeteries and burying grounds inside Fairmount Township
Fairmount LonestarPleasant ViewZion

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Clifford TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townPeabody Township6 historic placesAMilton TownshipIts storyB+Pleasant TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Fairmount Township’s history

What is on the National Register in Fairmount Township?

One place: the Oak Lawn Farm Dairy Barn (listed 2005).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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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 the National Register of Historic Places (1), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.