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Fairmont is a city in and the county seat of Marion County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 18,313 at the 2020 census , making it the eighth-most populous city in the state. [ 3 ] [ 5 ] It is the principal city of the Fairmont micropolitan area , which includes all of Marion County in North Central West Virginia and had a ...
Marion County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 56,205. [1] Its county seat is Fairmont. [2] The county was named in honor of General Francis Marion (ca. 1732–1795), known to history as "The Swamp Fox".
Fairmont Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located at Fairmont, Marion County, West Virginia. The district includes 97 contributing buildings and two contributing structures in Fairmont's central business district. They are in a variety of late 19th- and early 20th-century architectural styles.
It is immediately south of the larger city and county seat of Fairmont, West Virginia. The city is also adjacent to the Tygart Valley River. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3.41 square miles (8.83 km 2), of which 3.23 square miles (8.37 km 2) is land and 0.18 square miles (0.47 km 2) is water. [8]
Area codes 304 and 681 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the entirety of the U.S. state of West Virginia. The numbering plan area was established in October 1947 with area code 304, as one of the eighty-six original North American area codes .
Fairmont Municipal Airport (FAA LID: 4G7), also known as Frankman Field, is a public use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) southwest of the central business district of Fairmont, a city in Marion County, West Virginia, United States. It is owned by the Fairmont-Marion County Regional Airport Authority. [1]
Nov. 16—FAIRMONT — One student was likely already dead, as his panic-stricken friends half-dragged, half-carried him to the Emergency Room entrance at WVU Medicine-Fairmont Medical Center.
High Gate (also known as the James Edwin Watson House or Ross Funeral Home) [1] is an historic residence located at 800 Fairmont Avenue in Fairmont, West Virginia.. The High Gate house and carriage house were built ca. 1910-1913 by Fairmont industrialist and financier, James E. Watson, son of the "father of the West Virginia coal industry," James O. Watson.