Do you know of Benton Centre ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Benton Centre. 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 Benton Centre.<1>
Our sources for Benton Centre (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 Benton Centre other than they indicate that Benton Centre would be found somewhere in Benton County, Iowa.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1868 and closed in 1870.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Benton Centre ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Benton Centre:
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.
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
More Orphans in Benton 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 Benton County.
| Beulah | |
| Buckeye | Marysville |
| Burk | |
| Paul | |
| Daggett | Pickaway |
| Florence | Robin |
| Rogerville | |
| Gillespie | |
| Gomersal | Spencer Grove |
| Greaser's | |
| Gwinville | Unity |
| Urbanna | |
| Likens | |
| Linwood | Williams |
| London | Woods |
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |