Do you know of New Haven ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about New Haven. 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 New Haven.
Our sources for New Haven (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 New Haven other than they indicate that New Haven would be found somewhere in Washington County, Iowa.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1857 and closed in 1866.
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 New Haven ...
We found 28 communities that share the name New Haven.
There is one other community in Iowa which is also named New Haven.
Beyond Iowa, we know of another 27 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 27 communities, 26 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
- Communities Located In Iowa ...
- Mitchell County
- Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of New Haven [Mitchell County].
- Mitchell County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Colorado
- Logan County
- Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of New Haven [Logan County].
- Connecticut
- New Haven County
- Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of New Haven [New Haven County].
- Illinois
- Gallatin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of New Haven [Gallatin County].
- Indiana
- Allen County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of New Haven [Allen County].
- Kansas
- Douglas 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 Kansas community of New Haven [Douglas County].
- Reno County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of New Haven [Reno County].
- Kentucky
- Nelson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of New Haven [Nelson County].
- Michigan
- Mississippi
- Smith County
- Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of New Haven [Smith County].
- Missouri
- Franklin County
- Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of New Haven [Franklin County].
- Montana
- Jefferson County
- Please visit our profile page for the Montana community of New Haven [Jefferson County].
- New York
- Oswego County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of New Haven [Oswego County].
- North Carolina
- Alleghany County
- Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of New Haven [Alleghany County].
- Nova Scotia
- Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of New Haven.
- Ohio
- Pennsylvania
- Fayette County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of New Haven [Fayette County].
- Prince Edward Island
- Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of New Haven.
- Tennessee
- Lawrence County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of New Haven [Lawrence County].
- Scott County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of New Haven [Scott County].
- Stewart County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of New Haven [Stewart County].
- Vermont
- Addison County
- Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of New Haven [Addison County].
- West Virginia
- Mason County
- Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of New Haven [Mason County].
- Wyoming
- Crook County
- Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of New Haven [Crook County].
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for New Haven ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about New Haven:
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 Washington 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 Washington County.
| Bethel | |
| Pilotburg | |
| Cedarville | Pottsville |
| Clay | |
| Seventy-six Center | |
| Davis Creek | |
| Titus | |
| Juan | |
| Verdi | |
| Marcellus |
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 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 New Haven 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/ |