Do you know of Bath ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Bath. 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 Bath.
Our sources for Bath (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 Bath other than they indicate that Bath would be found somewhere in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1865 and closed in 1868.
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 Bath ...
We found 27 communities that share the name Bath.
Within Iowa, the name Bath is unique.
Beyond Iowa, we know of another 27 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 27 communities, 25 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
- Placer County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Bath [Placer County].
- Colorado
- Park County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Bath [Park County].
- Georgia
- Richmond County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Bath [Richmond County].
- Illinois
- Mason County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Bath [Mason County].
- Indiana
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Bath [Franklin County].
- Kansas
- Greenwood County
- 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 Kansas community of Bath [Greenwood County].
- Norton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Bath [Norton County].
- Reno County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Bath [Reno County].
- Woodson County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Bath [Woodson County].
- Kentucky
- Knott County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Bath [Knott County].
- Maine
- Sagadahoc County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Bath [Sagadahoc County].
- Michigan
- Clinton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Bath [Clinton County].
- Minnesota
- Freeborn County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Bath [Freeborn County].
- Missouri
- New Brunswick
- Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Bath.
- New Hampshire
- Grafton County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Bath [Grafton County].
- New York
- Rensselaer County
- 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 New York community of Bath [Rensselaer County].
- Steuben County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Bath [Steuben County].
- North Carolina
- Beaufort County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Bath [Beaufort County].
- Ohio
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Bath.
- Pennsylvania
- Northampton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Bath [Northampton County].
- South Carolina
- Aiken County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Bath [Aiken County].
- South Dakota
- Brown County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Bath [Brown County].
- Texas
- Walker County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Bath [Walker County].
- West Virginia
- Morgan County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Bath [Morgan County].
- California
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Bath ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Bath:
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.
More Orphans in Cerro Gordo 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 Cerro Gordo County.
| Clear Lake Junction | |
| Coldwater | Rock |
| Lime Creek | Shell Rock Falls |
| Merservey | West Mason City |
| Winnebago Heights | |
| Park |
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 Bath 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/ |