Do you know of Melpine ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1847 and closed  in 1879.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Melpine ...

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

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.

Iowa State Gazetteers
Written by: Hair, James T.
Published by Bailey & Hair
(Available from Amazon.com)

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

More Orphans in  Muscatine 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 Muscatine County.