Do you know of Fan ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Fan. 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 Fan.<1>
Our sources for Fan (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 Fan other than they indicate that Fan would be found somewhere in Des Moines County, Iowa.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1896 and closed in 1898.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Fan ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Fan:
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 Des Moines 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 Des Moines County.
| Beaverdale Heights | Jacksonville |
| Bluff Dale | |
| Burlington Junction | Limestone |
| Fox Landing | Navarre |
| Franklin Mills | |
| Parrish | |
| Gibbs | Prospect Hill |
| Gibsons Ferry | |
| South Flint | |
| Hartford | |
| Yellow Spring |
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> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |