Do you know of Botany ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Botany. 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 Botany.

Our sources for Botany (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 Botany other than they indicate that Botany would be found somewhere in Shelby County, Iowa.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1859 and closed  in 1871.

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 Botany ...

We found one communities that share the name Botany.

Within Iowa, the name Botany is unique.

Beyond Iowa, there is another community also named Botany in Canada.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Ontario
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Botany.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Botany ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

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  Shelby County ...

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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 Shelby County.