Do you know of Foreston ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Foreston. 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 Foreston.<1>
Our sources for Foreston (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 Foreston other than they indicate that Foreston would be found somewhere in Howard County, Iowa.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1857 and closed in 1871.
Communities Also Named Foreston ...
We found five communities that share the name Foreston.
Within Iowa, the name Foreston is unique.
Beyond Iowa, we know of another five communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these five communities, four are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Maryland
- Baltimore County
- Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Foreston [Baltimore County].
- Minnesota
- Mille Lacs County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Foreston [Mille Lacs County].
- New Brunswick
- Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Foreston.
- South Carolina
- Clarendon County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Foreston [Clarendon County].
- Texas
- Maryland
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Foreston ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Foreston:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>
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 Howard 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 Howard County.
| Acme | Howard |
| Busti | Jamestown |
| Crane Creek | Lowther |
| Eatonville | New Oregon |
| Glen Roy | Pond Valley |
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> | 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Foreston 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. |
| <3> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |