Do you know of Cardiff ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Cardiff. 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 Cardiff.<1>
Our sources for Cardiff (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 Cardiff other than they indicate that Cardiff would be found somewhere in Mitchell County, Iowa.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1855 and closed in 1904.
Communities Also Named Cardiff ...
We found sixteen communities that share the name Cardiff.
Within Iowa, the name Cardiff is unique.
Beyond Iowa, we know of another sixteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these sixteen communities, fourteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Cardiff [Jefferson County].
- Alberta
- Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Cardiff.
- Arkansas
- Scott County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Cardiff [Scott County].
- California
- Colorado
- Garfield County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Cardiff [Garfield County].
- Delaware
- New Castle County
- Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Cardiff [New Castle County].
- Idaho
- Clearwater County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Cardiff [Clearwater County].
- Illinois
- Livingston County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Cardiff [Livingston County].
- Maryland
- New Jersey
- Atlantic County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Cardiff [Atlantic County].
- New York
- Onondaga County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Cardiff [Onondaga County].
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Cardiff.
- Pennsylvania
- Cambria County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Cardiff [Cambria County].
- Tennessee
- Roane County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Cardiff [Roane County].
- Texas
- Waller County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Cardiff [Waller County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Cardiff ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Cardiff:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>
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)
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
Rand McNally Map of Iowa (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.
More Orphans in Mitchell 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 Mitchell County.
| Cora | Nelson |
| North Bend | |
| Dramen | |
| Otranto Station | |
| Hustad | |
| Stillwater | |
| Meroa | |
| Mitchell Station | Wapsie |
| West Mitchell |
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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. |
| <2> | 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 Cardiff 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. |
| <3> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |