Do you know of Medford ???

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

Our sources for Medford (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 Medford other than they indicate that Medford would be found somewhere in Warren County, Iowa.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1890 and closed  in 1903.

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 Medford ...

We found fifteen communities that share the name Medford.

Within Iowa, the name Medford is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Arkansas
    • Desha County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Medford [Desha County].
  • Indiana
    • Delaware County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Medford [Delaware County].
  • Maine
    • Piscataquis County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Medford [Piscataquis County].
  • Maryland
    • Carroll County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Medford [Carroll County].
  • Massachusetts
    • Middlesex County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Medford [Middlesex County].
  • Minnesota
    • Steele County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Medford [Steele County].
  • Missouri
    • Johnson County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Medford [Johnson County].
  • New Brunswick
    • Please visit our profile page for the New Brunswick community of Medford.
  • New Jersey
    • Burlington County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Medford [Burlington County].
  • New York
    • Suffolk County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Medford [Suffolk County].
  • Nova Scotia
    • Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Medford.
  • Oklahoma
    • Grant County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Medford [Grant County].
  • Oregon
    • Jackson County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Medford [Jackson County].
  • Tennessee
    • Anderson County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Medford [Anderson County].
  • Wisconsin
    • Taylor County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Medford [Taylor County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Medford ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Article: Index to Abandoned Towns of Iowa
Taken from The Annals of Iowa (Volume 18, Issue 3 - Winter 1932)
Written by: Mott, David C.

Rand McNally Map of Iowa (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in  Warren 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 Warren County.