Do you know of Des Moines City ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Des Moines 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 Des Moines City.<1>

Our sources for Des Moines 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 Des Moines City other than they indicate that Des Moines City would be found somewhere in Mahaska County, Iowa.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1851 and closed  in 1854.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Des Moines City ...

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

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  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.