Fairmount is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in Sussex County,

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, United States. It is one of the ''Three Sisters'' communities consisting of Fairmount, Hollyville, and

Hollymount Hollymount () is a village in County Mayo, Ireland. It is in the plains of south Mayo, on the R331 road midway between the towns of Ballinrobe and Claremorris. The village was named after the nearby Hollymount Estate, although the village lie ...

. Fairmount is the area located around the intersections of Delaware Route 5 and Delaware Route 23. The community is part of the Salisbury, Maryland-Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area.

History

Fairmount's population was 20 in 1925, and 100 in 1960.

References

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