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Fairmont, West Virginia

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The city of Fairmont is located in Marion County and is the county seat.

Fairmont is 300 feet [91.44 m] above sea level.<1>

Time Zone: Fairmont lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time.

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At the time of the 2000 Census, Fairmont had a population of 19,097 people<2> (or 33.8% of the total population of Marion County). The population of Fairmont represented 1.06% of the total of West Virginia, making it the state's 7th most populous community.

From the Census Estimates for 2008, Fairmont had a population of 19,024 people. This is a decrease of 0.38% since the 2000 Census.

The following table shows the recent changes in population. For the years after 2000, the population counts are estimated. More information can be found on the Census Page for Fairmont.

YearPopulationChange
Since 2000
Year-to-Year Change
200819,024-0.38%-0.26% since 2007
200719,074-0.12%+0.1% since 2006
200619,055-0.22%-0.14% since 2005
200519,082  
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200019,097The Last Census

The following is a sample of nearby communities:

 Community DirectionDistance<3>2008
Population
Change
Since 2000
 Bridgeport   SW13 mi [20.92 km]7,9288.51% increase
 Clarksburg   SW18 mi [28.97 km]16,4411.8% decrease
 Grafton   SE11 mi [17.7 km]5,3153.17% decrease
 Mannington   W10 mi [16.09 km]2,0792.12% decrease
 Morgantown   NE15 mi [24.14 km]29,64210.57% increase
 Nutter Fort   SW17 mi [27.36 km]1,6333.14% decrease

To learn more about neighboring communities, please visit the Neighborhood Page for Fairmont.

Website for Fairmont

If you know of a local history or genealogy society for either Fairmont or Marion County, would you please send us the URL for their website? We would like to add their link to our Gazetteer. To contact us, please visit our Feedback Page.


Official Website:   www.cityoffairmontwv.com/
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People have found Google's 'Search-by-Location' to be a useful tool when planning visits to this area. We have prepared the following searches to help you find businesses, travel and vacation activities that are in (or close to) Fairmont. It's likely that the search results won't include all of the businesses that are in this area, but the results should give you a good foundation for further searches.

For what it's worth: In addition to helping you submit your own search, clicking 'Other...' will frequently (but not always) show you some popular searches for this area.

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If you find an error or your business wasn't included in the results, please contact Google to help them resolve the issue (we simply link to 'Search-by-Location' and have no control over their results).



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Looking for more websites and/or information centered on Fairmont? Please visit the Map Page for Fairmont.


Footnotes

<1>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Fairmont - it wil be higher in some places and lower in others.

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<2>Population counts have been provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. For more detail, please visit our Census Page for Fairmont.

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<3>Our distances are calculated as a straight-line (or point-to-point) distance between Fairmont and the indicated community. The distance should be treated as an estimate and not as the driving distance.

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<4>All Quarter-dollar coin images from the United States Mint.

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