Do you know of Waltham ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Waltham. 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 Waltham.

Our sources for Waltham (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Waltham other than they indicate that Waltham would be found somewhere in Tama County, Iowa.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1863 and closed  in 1894.

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 Waltham ...

We found six communities that share the name Waltham.

Within Iowa, the name Waltham is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Illinois
    • La Salle County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Waltham [La Salle County].
  • Maine
    • Hancock County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Waltham [Hancock County].
  • Massachusetts
    • Middlesex County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Waltham [Middlesex County].
  • Minnesota
    • Mower County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Waltham [Mower County].
  • Montana
    • Chouteau County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Waltham [Chouteau County].
  • Quebec
    • Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Waltham.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Waltham ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Waltham:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Article: Index to Abandoned Towns of Iowa
Taken from The Annals of Iowa (Volume 18, Issue 3 - Winter 1932)
Written by: Mott, David C.

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Waltham - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

Iowa State Gazetteers
Written by: Hair, James T.
Published by Bailey & Hair
(Available from Amazon.com)

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

More Orphans in  Tama County ...

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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 Tama County.