Do you know of Newtonville ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1869 and closed in 1902.

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 Newtonville ...

We found eleven communities that share the name Newtonville.

Within Iowa, the name Newtonville is unique.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Fayette County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Newtonville [Fayette County].
- Indiana
  - Spencer County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Newtonville [Spencer County].
- Massachusetts
  - Middlesex County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Massachusetts community of Newtonville [Middlesex County].
- Michigan
  - Baraga 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 Michigan community of Newtonville [Baraga County].
- Mississippi
  - Attala County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Newtonville [Attala County].
- New Jersey
  - Atlantic County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Newtonville [Atlantic County].
- New York
  - Albany County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Newtonville [Albany County].
- Nova Scotia
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Newtonville.
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Newtonville.
- South Carolina
  - Marlboro County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Newtonville [Marlboro County].
- Texas
  - Gonzales County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Newtonville [Gonzales County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Newtonville ...

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

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.

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

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

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

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

More Orphans in Buchanan 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 Buchanan County.

Atlanta
	Idewild
Cana
Castleville	Kier

Hazelton Station	Middlefield

Footnotes ...

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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 Newtonville 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.

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

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