Do you know of Shore Acres ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Shore Acres. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Shore Acres.

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Shore Acres, so we are uncertain whether Shore Acres is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Shore Acres would be found somewhere in Woodbury County, Iowa.

This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.

Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.

Communities Also Named Shore Acres ...

We found twenty communities that share the name Shore Acres.

Within Iowa, the name Shore Acres is unique.

Beyond Iowa, we know of another twenty communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twenty communities, nineteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
  - Contra Costa County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Shore Acres [Contra Costa County].
- Florida
  - Pinellas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Shore Acres [Pinellas County].
- Indiana
  - Marion County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Shore Acres [Marion County].
- Kentucky
  - Woodford County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Shore Acres [Woodford County].
- Maryland
  - Anne Arundel County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Shore Acres [Anne Arundel County].
- Massachusetts
  - Bristol County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Shore Acres [Bristol County].
  - Plymouth County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Shore Acres [Plymouth County].
- Michigan
  - Cass County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Shore Acres [Cass County].
- New Jersey
  - Ocean County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Shore Acres [Ocean County].
- New York
  - Chautauqua County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Shore Acres [Chautauqua County].
  - Monroe County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Shore Acres [Monroe County].
  - Suffolk County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Shore Acres [Suffolk County].
  - Westchester County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Shore Acres [Westchester County].
- North Carolina
  - New Hanover County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Shore Acres [New Hanover County].
- Ohio
  - Lucas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Shore Acres [Lucas County].
- Ontario
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Shore Acres.
- Rhode Island
  - Washington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Rhode Island community of Shore Acres [Washington County].
- Tennessee
  - Hamilton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Shore Acres [Hamilton County].
- Washington
  - King County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Shore Acres [King County].
  - Pierce County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Shore Acres [Pierce County].

More Orphans in Woodbury County ...

Can you help?

As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Woodbury County.

Brughier Bridge
	North Side
Crawford
	Odd
Discord
Dodds	Peiro

Gale	Rock Branch
German City
	Sargent's Bluffs
Hedge's Siding
Hoskins	Wickham Spur
	Wolfdale
Lakeport	Woodbury
Lozier

Footnotes ...

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If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Shore Acres could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.