Do you know of Dryden ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Dryden. 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 Dryden.
Our sources for Dryden (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 Dryden other than they indicate that Dryden would be found somewhere in Tama County, Iowa.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1868 and closed in 1881.
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 Dryden ...
We found sixteen communities that share the name Dryden.
Within Iowa, the name Dryden is unique.
Beyond Iowa, we know of another sixteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these sixteen communities, fifteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Craighead County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Dryden [Craighead County].
- Idaho
- Idaho County
- Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Dryden [Idaho County].
- Illinois
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Maine
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Dryden [Franklin County].
- Michigan
- Lapeer County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Dryden [Lapeer County].
- Missouri
- Ripley County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Dryden [Ripley County].
- New York
- Tompkins County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Dryden [Tompkins County].
- Oklahoma
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Dryden.
- Oregon
- Josephine County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Dryden [Josephine County].
- Texas
- Virginia
- Lee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Dryden [Lee County].
- Washington
- Chelan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Dryden [Chelan County].
- Arkansas
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Dryden ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Dryden:
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.
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
More Orphans in Tama 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 Tama County.
| Badger Hill | Genesee |
| Berlin | |
| Bovina | Kinisaw |
| Bruner | |
| Butlerville | Orford |
| Connell | Ramona |
| Crystal | |
| Spring Creek | |
| Elberton | |
| Evergreen | Vineyard |
| Fairhaven | Waltham |
| Fifteen Mile | Wolf Creek |
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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek 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 Dryden 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/ |