Do you know of Broadway ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Broadway. 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 Broadway.
Our sources for Broadway (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Broadway other than they indicate that Broadway would be found somewhere in Linn County, Iowa.
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 Broadway ...
We found 29 communities that share the name Broadway.
Within Iowa, the name Broadway is unique.
Beyond Iowa, we know of another 29 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 29 communities, 28 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
- Sacramento 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 California community of Broadway [Sacramento County].
- San Mateo 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 California community of Broadway [San Mateo County].
- Florida
- Hillsborough County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Broadway [Hillsborough County].
- Illinois
- Kentucky
- Edmonson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Broadway [Edmonson County].
- Massachusetts
- Missouri
- Nevada
- White Pine County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Broadway [White Pine County].
- New Jersey
- Camden 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 Jersey community of Broadway [Camden County].
- Warren County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Broadway [Warren County].
- New York
- Oswego 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 Broadway [Oswego County].
- Queens 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 New York community of Broadway [Queens County].
- North Carolina
- Columbus County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Broadway [Columbus County].
- Lee County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Broadway [Lee County].
- Moore 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 North Carolina community of Broadway [Moore County].
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Broadway.
- Ohio
- Pennsylvania
- Luzerne County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Broadway [Luzerne County].
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- Tennessee
- Henderson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Broadway [Henderson County].
- Texas
- Crosby County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Broadway [Crosby County].
- Dallas 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 Texas community of Broadway [Dallas County].
- Lamar County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Broadway [Lamar County].
- Virginia
- Rockingham County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Broadway [Rockingham County].
- Washington
- California
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Broadway ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Broadway:
Article: Index to Abandoned Towns of Iowa
Taken from The Annals of Iowa (Volume 18, Issue 3 - Winter 1932)
Written by: Mott, David C.
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Broadway - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned
More Orphans in Linn 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 Linn County.
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 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 Broadway 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. |