Do you know of Baden ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Baden. 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 Baden.
Our sources for Baden (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 Baden other than they indicate that Baden would be found somewhere in Keokuk County, Iowa.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1862 and closed in 1872.
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 Baden ...
We found nineteen communities that share the name Baden.
Within Iowa, the name Baden is unique.
Beyond Iowa, we know of another fourteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fourteen communities, twelve are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
In addition to the above occurrences of Baden, we know of five communities located outside of the United States and Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
- San Mateo County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Baden [San Mateo County].
- Georgia
- Brooks County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Baden [Brooks County].
- Kansas
- Manitoba
- Please visit our profile page for the Manitoba community of Baden.
- Maryland
- Prince George's County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Baden [Prince George's County].
- Minnesota
- Missouri
- Saint Louis City
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Baden [Saint Louis City].
- North Dakota
- Ward County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Baden [Ward County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Baden.
- Pennsylvania
- Beaver County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Baden [Beaver County].
- Texas
- Virginia
- Dickenson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Baden [Dickenson County].
- West Virginia
- Mason County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Baden [Mason County].
- California
- Communities Beyond North America ...
- Austria
- We haven't found the location of this Baden
- Tasmania
- We haven't found the location of this Baden
- Switzerland
- We haven't found the location of this Baden
- Germany
- We haven't found the location of this Baden
- France
- We haven't found the location of this Baden
- Austria
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Baden ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Baden:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
Article: Index to Abandoned Towns of Iowa
Taken from The Annals of Iowa (Volume 18, Issue 3 - Winter 1932)
Written by: Mott, David C.
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 Keokuk 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 Keokuk County.
| Butler | Milan |
| Divide | Nassau |
| Edom | Pecks |
| Lancaster | Walden |
| White Pigeon | |
| Manhattan |
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Baden 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |