Fairmount Georgia Map

About Fairmount, Georgia

Fairmount is a locality in Gordon County, Georgia, United States. It is a small community with a population of 772. The population density is 163.2 people per km². Fairmount is located at 34.4362°N, 84.6999°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Fairmount is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 30139.

Fairmount reveals itself through a landscape of stubborn red clay and the quiet persistence of longleaf pines that anchor the horizon against a pale, expansive sky. It lies 15.0 miles east-southeast of Calhoun, GA (from Calhoun, GA: bearing 108°T), and is situated 18.2 miles northwest of Canton. The air here holds the weight of the inland heat, cooling only when the light slants low across the fields, casting long, bruised shadows that stretch toward the distant, hazy silhouette of the Appalachian Mountains. To the west, the gentle depression of Wolf Hollow breaks the monotony of the flatlands, while the nearby waters of Takila Lake offer a singular, glassy stillness that mirrors the shifting clouds. Salacoa Creek cuts a winding, narrow path through the undergrowth, its movement barely audible against the backdrop of a quiet afternoon.

Fairmount maintains a rhythm dictated by the cycles of the earth and the modest scale of its daily commerce, where the presence of Fairmount Elementary School serves as the steady, gravitational center of the local day. The history of the region remains etched in the quiet industry of those who work the soil and the modest architecture that defines the streetscape, far removed from the clamor of the modern metropolitan hubs. Life here favors the deliberate pace of the seasons, where the arrival of the harvest or the changing color of the leaves marks the passage of time more reliably than any clock. There is a particular clarity to the evenings in Fairmount, as the last of the sun catches the dust motes above the fields and the crickets begin their steady, rhythmic pulse in the cooling grass.

About This Fairmount Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Fairmount, Georgia. Coordinates: 34.436201, -84.699935. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Fairmount includes the ZIP code (30139), telephone area code (404, 470, 678), county seat of Gordon County (Calhoun), and school district assignment (Gordon County School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.