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This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Hesperian. 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 Hesperian.<1>

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1858 and closed  in 1882.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Hesperian ...

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

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.

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  Webster 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 Webster County.

BellevilleKentuck Grove
 Kesho
Carbon Junction 
CarbonLatham
ClayworksLinnburg
Crooks 
 Nebraska
Fort Dodge JunctionNewark
  
GypsumTyson's Mills
  
IndustryWest Dayton
  

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/









 

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