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Do you know of Johnston Station ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Johnston Station, so we are uncertain whether Johnston Station is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Johnston Station would be found somewhere in Polk County, Iowa.

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 Johnston Station ...

We found two communities that share the name Johnston Station.

Within Iowa, the name Johnston Station is unique.

Beyond Iowa, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these two communities, one is located in the United States and the other in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Georgia
      • Liberty County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Johnston Station [Liberty County].
    • Ontario
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Johnston Station.

More Orphans in  Polk 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 Polk County.

AcmeMurrow
  
BeaverdaleNobleton
 North Des Moines
Canary Lake 
Capital HeightsOak Park
ChesterfieldOakwood
Circleville 
Clover HillsPalmer
Colonial VillagePlaza Hills
CopePolk
Cottage Grove 
 Raccoon River
Flint JunctionRidgedale
  
GlakeSaydel
GrandSevastapol
GreenwoodSouth Des Moines
  
HardingTamworth
Highland ParkThree Rivers
 Tibbitt
Indianola HeightsTyner
  
Lundstrom HeightsWabash Junction
 Windsor
McCoy 
MidwayYoungstown

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Johnston Station 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.









 

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