Do you know of Carbonado ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Carbonado. 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 Carbonado.

Our sources for Carbonado (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 Carbonado other than they indicate that Carbonado would be found somewhere in Mahaska 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 Carbonado ...

We found one communities that share the name Carbonado.

Within Iowa, the name Carbonado is unique.

Beyond Iowa, there is another community also named Carbonado in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Washington
    • Pierce County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Carbonado [Pierce County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Carbonado ...

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

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 Carbonado - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

Sixth Biennial Report of the State Mine Inspectors, Two Years Ending June 30, 1893
Published as a Legislative Document: The Twenty-Fifth General Assembly of the State of Iowa - Vol. 4

More Orphans in  Mahaska 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 Mahaska County.