Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Clermont, IA

Clermont is a city in Fayette County, in northeast Iowa, located on the Turkey River.

Clermont was first laid out in 1851 by John Thompson and C. D. Carlton under the spelling "Claremont," was officially platted in 1855, recorded as Clermont by the legislature on July 15, 1856, and incorporated on August 16, 1875.

Clermont's nickname is "Brick City," earned because its brickmaking industry was so famous in the second half of the nineteenth century.

Clermont is home to Montauk, the hilltop mansion of William Larrabee, the 12th Governor of Iowa, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and open as a state historic site.

The 2020 census counted 586 people in Clermont living in 243 households across about 1.23 square miles.

Clermont's population peaked at 716 in 2000 and has declined in each census since, falling to 586 in 2020, with a notably older population — a median age of 46.5 years.

Clermont has an unusual concentration of National Register-listed properties for its size, including Montauk, the Abraham Lincoln Statue and Park, the Episcopal Church of the Saviour, and the Union Sunday School.

Clermont is part of the North Fayette Valley Community School District; the town's own school building, built around 1913 and closed in 1990, is now the Larrabee Building, housing city government offices and a library, richly decorated in marble.

Clermont was the hometown of David B. Henderson, who became Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, and of ragtime composer George Botsford.

The Kerndt Brothers Savings Bank building in downtown Clermont is one of several pieces of historic architecture surviving from the town's brick-era prosperity.