Do you know of Blue Point ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Blue Point. 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 Blue Point.<1>

Our sources for Blue Point (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 Blue Point other than they indicate that Blue Point would be found somewhere in Poweshiek County, Iowa.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1860 and closed in 1872.

Communities Also Named Blue Point ...

We found five communities that share the name Blue Point.

Within Iowa, the name Blue Point is unique.

Beyond Iowa, we know of another five communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these five communities, four are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Illinois
  - Effingham County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Blue Point [Effingham County].
  - Wayne County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Blue Point [Wayne County].
- Maine
  - Cumberland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Blue Point [Cumberland County].
- New York
  - Suffolk County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Blue Point [Suffolk County].
- Ontario
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Blue Point.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Blue Point ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Blue Point:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

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 Poweshiek 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 Poweshiek County.

Bear Creek
	North Skunk
Chester Centre
Clearfield	Oak Grove

East Brooklyn	Stilwell
	Sugar Grove
Forest Home
	Tyro
Holiday Lake
	West Brooklyn
Mill Grove	Western

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>	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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Blue Point 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.
<3>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/