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Welcome to Lear ...

Lear is located in Grundy County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Lear, you might consider that their post office opened in 1898.

Lear is 1,020 feet [311 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Lear lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Communities Also Named Lear ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Lear - it's located in Arkansas.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Lear.

Communities near Lear ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Lear.

  • Cedar Falls
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
  • Waverly
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Grundy Center
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
  • Hudson
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Hudson is located in Black Hawk County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hudson
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,473 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hudson <3>
  • Parkersburg
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Reinbeck
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Ackley
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
  • Clarksville
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
  • Shell Rock
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Dike
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Dike is located in Grundy County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dike
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,267 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Dike <3>

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Lear. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Lear.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Lear. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Lear.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Lear. See our Newspapers Page for Lear.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Lear ...

Looking for more information about Lear? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Lear, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Lear.

Adding Lear to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Lear in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Lear was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

From that list, the Lear post office opened in 1898. The Lear post office closed in 1904.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Lear.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Iowa's counties, including Grundy, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Lear - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/