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Welcome to Buena Vista ...So far, we found very little information about Buena Vista. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Buena Vista to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Buena Vista, please Contact Us. Buena Vista would have been located within present day Lee County<2>. The location of Buena Vista has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Buena Vista, you might get a feel for it by knowing that the earliest mention that we've found (so far) was in a book dated 1895. While the community is gone, the present day location for Buena Vista is 490 feet [149 m] above sea level.<4>. Time Zone: The area where Buena Vista was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time If Buena Vista still existed, it would have been in the (319) area code. Communities Also Named Buena Vista ...While we believe that this Buena Vista is located in Lee County, we know of another 2 Iowa communities named Buena Vista. Those communities are located in the following counties: Clayton and Clinton County. Beyond Iowa, there are 87 communities that are also named Buena Vista - they are located in Alabama (2), Arizona, Arkansas, California (8), Colorado, Florida (4), Georgia (3), Illinois (2), Indiana (4), Kansas (2), Kentucky (4), Maryland (2), Michigan, Mississippi (3), Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico (5), New York, North Carolina (4), Ohio (5), Oregon, Pennsylvania (6), Saskatchewan, Tennessee (2), Texas (9), Utah (3), Virginia (3), Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin (2). For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Buena Vista. Communities near Buena Vista ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Buena Vista.
To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy. We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Buena Vista. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Buena Vista. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Buena Vista. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Buena Vista. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Buena Vista. See our Newspapers Page for Buena Vista. Adding Buena Vista to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Buena Vista in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page. From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Buena Vista was in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895). For more details, see References and Mentions for Buena Vista. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for Lee County: www.leecounty.org/ The official website for State of Iowa: https://www.iowa.gov/ Footnotes ...
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