Do you know of Gibraltar ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Gibraltar. 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 Gibraltar.

Our sources for Gibraltar (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 Gibraltar other than they indicate that Gibraltar would be found somewhere in Lyon County, Iowa.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1869 and closed  in 1871.

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 Gibraltar ...

We found eight communities that share the name Gibraltar.

Within Iowa, the name Gibraltar is unique.

Beyond Iowa, we know of another eight communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eight communities, four are located in the United States and five are in Canada.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • British Columbia
    • Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Gibraltar.
  • Michigan
    • Wayne County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Gibraltar [Wayne County].
  • North Carolina
    • Union County
    • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Gibraltar [Union County].
  • Nova Scotia
    • Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Gibraltar.
  • Ontario
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Gibraltar.
  • Pennsylvania
    • Berks County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Gibraltar [Berks County].
  • Quebec
    • Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Gibraltar.
  • Washington
    • Skagit County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Gibraltar [Skagit County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Gibraltar ...

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

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

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  Lyon 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 Lyon County.