Do you know of Buda ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Buda. 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 Buda.
Our sources for Buda (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 Buda other than they indicate that Buda would be found somewhere in Pocahontas County, Iowa.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1873 and closed in 1875.
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 Buda ...
We found eleven communities that share the name Buda.
There is one other community in Iowa which is also named Buda.
Beyond Iowa, we know of another ten communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these ten communities, ten are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Located In Iowa ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Colorado
- Weld County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Buda [Weld County].
- Florida
- Alachua County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Buda [Alachua County].
- Orange 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 Florida community of Buda [Orange County].
- Seminole County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Buda [Seminole County].
- Illinois
- Bureau County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Buda [Bureau County].
- Kansas
- Nebraska
- Buffalo County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Buda [Buffalo County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Buda.
- Texas
- Hays County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Buda [Hays County].
- Colorado
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Buda ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Buda:
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.
More Orphans in Pocahontas 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 Pocahontas County.
| Blooming Prairie | Luella |
| Cedarville | Marvin |
| Cora | |
| Rea | |
| Garlock | Rolfe Junction |
| Rubens | |
| Lilly |
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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Buda 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |