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Do you know of Kenwood Park ???

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

We found mention of Kenwood Park as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Linn County, Iowa.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.<2>

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1891 and closed  in 1926.

Communities Also Named Kenwood Park ...

We found two communities that share the name Kenwood Park.

Within Iowa, the name Kenwood Park is unique.

Beyond Iowa, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Maryland
      • Baltimore County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Kenwood Park [Baltimore County].
      • Montgomery County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Kenwood Park [Montgomery County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Kenwood Park ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

The FIPS database contains an entry for Kenwood Park.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 19/40800   (Place Name: Kenwood Park)

County: Linn     (FIPS State/County: 19/113)

Class: U4

Identifies a populated place (ie- Kenwood Park) which is wholly or substantially located within the boundaries of an incorporated place with a different name. The Part of Code identifies the incorporated place.

More Orphans in  Linn 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 Linn County.

Alger 
 Mondieu
Babcock 
BeverlyNorthwest
Boulder 
Brandy BrookOak Grove
BroadwayOtter Creek
Burnett 
 Palisades
CousinsPinhook
CrandicPinney
CrestwoodProspect Hill
  
DoveRobbins
Dry CheekRural
  
ElmontShaver
 Spring Grove
FlemingvilleSylvia
Franklin 
 Torah
Hoosier GroveTrentham
  
Indian CreekVanderbilt
Ivanhoe 
 Waconia
Kingston CityWapsa
 West Prairie
LinnWest Rapids
LyonsWestern College

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>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.
<3>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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