Welcome to Balfour ...Balfour is located in Mills County<1>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Balfour, you might consider that their post office opened in 1905. Balfour is 1,160 feet [354 m] above sea level.<2>. Time Zone: Balfour lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time Area Code for Balfour: 712 Communities Also Named Balfour ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 5 communities that are also named Balfour - they are located in British Columbia, Colorado, North Carolina, North Dakota and Ontario. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Balfour. Communities near Balfour ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Balfour.
To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy. We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Balfour. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Balfour. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Balfour. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Balfour. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Balfour. See our Newspapers Page for Balfour. TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Balfour ...Looking for more information about Balfour? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions. While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Balfour, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Balfour. Adding Balfour to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Balfour in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page. From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Balfour was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5> We also found Balfour on a map titled Rand McNally Map of Iowa (1911). For more details, see References and Mentions for Balfour. Footnotes ...
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