THE FAIRMOUNT LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Glacial Lake Agassiz Basin setting.
Fairmount township has 40.9 square miles of land in Richland County. Its Census reference point is in Glacial Lake Agassiz Basin, within Lake Agassiz Plain.
The former bed of glacial Lake Agassiz forms an exceptionally flat plain in the Red River valley. Thick lake sediments overlie older glacial deposits across this historic prairie landscape.
Regional context: Lake Agassiz Plain ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Fairmount and Richland County
Fairmount is associated with Richland 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 square miles of water within Fairmount, or 0% of its total area. It is 0.7 percentage points lower than the 0.7% recorded for Richland County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Fairmount township has 123.5 times the land area of nearby Fairmount city (0.33 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

