Do you know of Jasper City ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Jasper City. 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 Jasper City.<1>
Our sources for Jasper City (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 Jasper City other than they indicate that Jasper City would be found somewhere in Jasper County, Iowa.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1869 and closed in 1871.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Jasper City ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Jasper City:
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.
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office
More Orphans in Jasper 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 Jasper County.
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/ |