Do you know of Crescent City ???

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

Our sources for Crescent City (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 Crescent City other than they indicate that Crescent City would be found somewhere in Pottawattamie County, Iowa.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1857 and closed  in 1883.

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 Crescent City ...

We found four communities that share the name Crescent City.

Within Iowa, the name Crescent City is unique.

Beyond Iowa, we know of another four communities that are located throughout in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • California
    • Del Norte County
    • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Crescent City [Del Norte County].
  • Florida
    • Putnam County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Crescent City [Putnam County].
  • Illinois
    • Iroquois County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Crescent City [Iroquois County].
  • Montana
    • Mineral County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Crescent City [Mineral County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Crescent City ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

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

More Orphans in  Pottawattamie 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 Pottawattamie County.