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Do you know of Mount Valley ???

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

Our sources for Mount Valley (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 Mount Valley other than they indicate that Mount Valley would be found somewhere in Winnebago County, Iowa.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1875 and closed  in 1900.

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 Mount Valley ...

We found one communities that share the name Mount Valley.

Within Iowa, the name Mount Valley is unique.

Beyond Iowa, there is another community also named Mount Valley in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • North Carolina
      • Polk County
      • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Mount Valley [Polk County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Mount Valley ...

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

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.

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Mount Valley - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Winnebago 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 Winnebago County.

DelanoNeils
  
GrytteTweten
  
NasheimWoden

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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









 

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