Do you know of Bush ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Bush. 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 Bush.
Our sources for Bush (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 Bush other than they indicate that Bush would be found somewhere in Jasper County, Iowa.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1858 and closed in 1859.
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 Bush ...
We found fifteen communities that share the name Bush.
Within Iowa, the name Bush is unique.
Beyond Iowa, we know of another fifteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fifteen communities, fourteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Barbour 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 Alabama community of Bush [Barbour County].
- Calhoun County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Bush [Calhoun County].
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Bush [Jefferson County].
- Arkansas
- California
- San Bernardino County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Bush [San Bernardino County].
- Illinois
- Kentucky
- Laurel County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Bush [Laurel County].
- Louisiana
- Saint Tammany Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Bush [Saint Tammany Parish].
- Maryland
- Harford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Bush [Harford County].
- Mississippi
- Simpson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Bush [Simpson County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Bush.
- Oregon
- South Carolina
- Aiken County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Bush [Aiken County].
- Washington
- Thurston County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Bush [Thurston County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Bush ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Bush:
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 Jasper 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 Jasper County.
| Amboy | |
| Lynnville Junction | |
| Colfax Sptings | |
| Seevers | |
| Fairmount | Skunk Coal Mine |
| Franklin | |
| Warren Grove | |
| Jasper City | Williamsville |
| Killduff Station | Zachary |
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 Bush 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/ |