Do you know of Brushy Valley ???

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

Our sources for Brushy Valley (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 Brushy Valley other than they indicate that Brushy Valley would be found somewhere in Guthrie County, Iowa.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1861 and closed  in 1867.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Brushy Valley ...

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

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.

Iowa State Gazetteers
Written by: Hair, James T.
Published by Bailey & Hair
(Available from Amazon.com)

More Orphans in  Guthrie 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 Guthrie County.