Welcome to Arcola ...

So far, we found very little information about Arcola. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Arcola to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Arcola - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Arcola, please Contact Us.

While we don't have the exact location of Arcola , we believe that it would have been located within present day Monona County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Arcola, you might consider that their post office opened in 1864.

Time Zone: The area where Arcola was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

The Area Code where Arcola was located: 712

Communities Also Named Arcola ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 22 communities that are also named Arcola - they are located in Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas (5), Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Saskatchewan, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Arcola.

Adding Arcola to Our Gazetteer ...

The earliest source we've referenced which mentioned Arcola was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

X2X - From that list, the Arcola post office opened in 1864.

We also found Arcola in the book titled Iowa State Gazetteer (1865).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Arcola.

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for State of Iowa: https://www.iowa.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>	We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Arcola, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>	If you're interested in how the shape of Iowa's counties, including Monona, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/