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Fairmont is a village in Fillmore County in southeastern Nebraska, on U.S. Highway 6.

The townsite was selected by a railroad town company and surveyed in October 1871; before that, the farm post office on M.H. Brown's land was called Hesperia.

Fairmont's name fits the alphabetical sequence of Burlington railroad stops west of Lincoln — Berks, Crete, Dorchester, Exeter, Fairmont, Grafton — and also describes its scenic setting at a lofty elevation of about 1,641 feet.

The village was incorporated on May 26, 1873; a schoolhouse was built that year, and its first newspaper, the Fairmont Bulletin, had begun publishing in May 1872.

A grasshopper plague in the summer of 1874 destroyed area crops and stalled the young village's growth for two years.

The Fairmont Creamery Company, founded in 1884, grew into the nationally known Fairmont Foods, once counted among America's 500 largest corporations, before its corporate offices moved to Omaha in 1907.

The Fillmore County Museum in Fairmont occupies the creamery company's 1884 general office building, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and holds more than 14,000 donated items.

During World War II, the 1,980-acre Fairmont Army Air Field south of the village provided final training for B-17, B-24 and B-29 bomber groups with nearly 6,000 airmen, and its surviving hangars and buildings are now preserved as a National Register historic district at Fairmont State Airfield.

The 2020 census counted about 600 residents, up from 560 people in 243 households in 2010, and the village's population peaked at 1,029 in 1890.

Fairmont averages about 27 inches of precipitation and roughly 25 inches of snow each year.