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Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about Germanville came from various goverment sources (GNIS, FIPS), we also found mention of Germanville in various books, maps and other sources.

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Germanville. We hope that they will be useful to you.

Note: Initially, we were careless about keeping track of where our Germanville data came from. The following list of references and mentions is incomplete.

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)

Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Germanville:
Services available in 1895: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

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

Rand McNally Map of Iowa (1911)

Published by Rand McNally & Co.

In addition:

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

Both the GNIS and FIPS databases contain entries for Germanville. See our Misc Page for Germanville for more information.

Footnotes ...

<1>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/