Do you know of Iowa Junction ???

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

We found mention of Iowa Junction as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Peoria County, Illinois.

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.

Communities Also Named Iowa Junction ...

We found three communities that share the name Iowa Junction.

There is one other community in Illinois which is also named Iowa Junction.

Beyond Illinois, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Located In Illinois ...
- Henderson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Iowa Junction [Henderson County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Iowa
  - Washington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Iowa Junction [Washington County].
- Louisiana
  - Jefferson Davis Parish
  - 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 Louisiana community of Iowa Junction [Jefferson Davis Parish].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Iowa Junction ...

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

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

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

The FIPS database contains an entry for Iowa Junction.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 17/37634 (Place Name: Iowa Junction)

County: Peoria (FIPS State/County: 17/143)

Class: X2

More Orphans in Peoria 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 Peoria County.

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 Iowa Junction 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.