Do you know of Little River ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Little River. 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 Little River.
Our sources for Little River (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 Little River other than they indicate that Little River would be found somewhere in Decatur County, Iowa.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1874 and closed in 1886.
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 Little River ...
We found 29 communities that share the name Little River.
Within Iowa, the name Little River is unique.
Beyond Iowa, we know of another 29 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 29 communities, 24 are located in the United States and seven are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Baldwin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Little River [Baldwin County].
- Cherokee County
- Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Little River [Cherokee County].
- Arkansas
- Little River 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 Arkansas community of Little River [Little River County].
- Mississippi County
- Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Little River [Mississippi County].
- British Columbia
- Please visit our profile page for the British Columbia community of Little River.
- California
- Mendocino County
- Please visit our profile page for the California community of Little River [Mendocino County].
- Connecticut
- Middlesex 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 Connecticut community of Little River [Middlesex County].
- Florida
- Miami-Dade County
- Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Little River [Miami-Dade County].
- Suwannee 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 Florida community of Little River [Suwannee County].
- Georgia
- Wilkes County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Little River [Wilkes County].
- Kansas
- McPherson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Little River [McPherson County].
- Rice County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Little River [Rice County].
- Louisiana
- Livingston Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Little River [Livingston Parish].
- Maine
- Androscoggin 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 Maine community of Little River [Androscoggin County].
- Massachusetts
- Hampden County
- Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Little River [Hampden County].
- Michigan
- Menominee 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 Michigan community of Little River [Menominee County].
- Missouri
- New Madrid County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Little River [New Madrid County].
- New Brunswick
- Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Little River.
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of Little River.
- North Carolina
- Alexander County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Little River [Alexander County].
- Transylvania County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Little River [Transylvania County].
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Little River.
- South Carolina
- Horry County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Little River [Horry County].
- Tennessee
- Blount County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Little River [Blount County].
- Knox 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 Tennessee community of Little River [Knox County].
- Monroe County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Little River [Monroe County].
- Texas
- Bell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Little River [Bell County].
- Virginia
- Floyd 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 Virginia community of Little River [Floyd County].
- Yukon
- Please visit our profile page for the Yukon community of Little River.
- Alabama
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Little River ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Little River:
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.
More Orphans in Decatur 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 Decatur County.
| Bethany Junction | |
| Burrell | Giles |
| Cora | Highbrier |
| Crown | |
| Smith's | |
| Decatur | |
| DeKalb | Tuskeega |
| Fierce | Westerville |
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 Little River 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. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |