THE FAIRMOUNT LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Clayey High Lime Till Plains setting.
Fairmount township has 30.4 square miles of land in Grant County. Its Census reference point is in Clayey High Lime Till Plains, within Eastern Corn Belt Plains.
Rolling glacial till plains are interrupted by end moraines and areas of older, more dissected deposits. The historical landscape had more tree cover than the Central Corn Belt to the west.
Regional context: Eastern Corn Belt Plains ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Fairmount and Grant County
Fairmount is associated with Grant County in the Census boundary data. Start with the parcel’s tax bill to match the property to that jurisdiction, then confirm which government handles its land use.
Fairmount by land and water
The Census records 0.03 square miles of water within Fairmount, or 0.1% of its total area. That share is close to Grant County’s 0.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Fairmount township has 19.2 times the land area of nearby Fairmount town (1.59 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

