Do you know of Colony ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Colony. 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 Colony.
Our sources for Colony (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 Colony other than they indicate that Colony would be found somewhere in Delaware County, Iowa.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1846 and closed in 1864.
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 Colony ...
We found 21 communities that share the name Colony.
Within Iowa, the name Colony is unique.
Beyond Iowa, we know of another 21 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Cullman County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Colony [Cullman County].
- Talladega County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Colony [Talladega County].
- Tuscaloosa 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 Colony [Tuscaloosa County].
- Georgia
- Baldwin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Colony [Baldwin County].
- Kansas
- Anderson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Colony [Anderson County].
- Norton 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 Kansas community of Colony [Norton County].
- Kentucky
- Fayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Colony [Fayette County].
- Maryland
- Missouri
- Knox County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Colony [Knox County].
- Nevada
- Lyon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Colony [Lyon County].
- Oklahoma
- Washita County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Colony [Washita County].
- South Carolina
- Aiken County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Colony [Aiken County].
- Texas
- Blanco County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Colony [Blanco County].
- Denton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Colony [Denton County].
- Fayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Colony [Fayette County].
- Rains County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Colony [Rains County].
- Utah
- Weber County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Colony [Weber County].
- Virginia
- Wyoming
- Crook County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Colony [Crook County].
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Colony ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Colony:
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.
U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers
More Orphans in Delaware 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 Delaware County.
| Almira | Golden Prairie |
| Almoral Station | Green Hill |
| Grove Creek | |
| Barryville | |
| Bay | Plum Spring |
| Broadway | Poultney |
| Campton | Spring Branch |
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 Colony 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/ |