Do you know of Melville ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Melville. 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 Melville.<1>
Our sources for Melville (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 Melville other than they indicate that Melville would be found somewhere in Audubon County, Iowa.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1878 and closed in 1891.
Communities Also Named Melville ...
We found eighteen communities that share the name Melville.
Within Iowa, the name Melville is unique.
Beyond Iowa, we know of another eighteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eighteen communities, fourteen are located in the United States and seven are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Illinois
- Madison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Melville [Madison County].
- Kansas
- Ottawa County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Melville [Ottawa County].
- Louisiana
- Saint Landry Parish
- Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Melville [Saint Landry Parish].
- Missouri
- Jackson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Melville [Jackson County].
- Montana
- Sweet Grass County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Melville [Sweet Grass County].
- New York
- Suffolk County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Melville [Suffolk County].
- North Carolina
- Alamance County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Melville [Alamance County].
- North Dakota
- Foster County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Melville [Foster County].
- Nova Scotia
- Ontario
- Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Melville.
- Oregon
- Clatsop County
- Please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Melville [Clatsop County].
- Prince Edward Island
- Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Melville.
- Rhode Island
- Newport County
- Please visit our profile page for the Rhode Island community of Melville [Newport County].
- Saskatchewan
- Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Melville.
- Tennessee
- Hamilton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Melville [Hamilton County].
- Vermont
- West Virginia
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Melville ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Melville:
Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>
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 Audubon 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 Audubon County.
| Audubon Heights | Irwin |
| Civil Point | Jobes |
| Conkling | |
| Leroyville | |
| Grove | Louisville |
| Horace | Thompson |
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> | 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek 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 Melville 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. |
| <3> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |