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Do you know of Nine Eagles ???

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

Our sources for Nine Eagles (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 Nine Eagles other than they indicate that Nine Eagles would be found somewhere in Decatur County, Iowa.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1849 and closed  in 1870.

Communities Also Named Nine Eagles ...

We found one communities that share the name Nine Eagles.

Within Iowa, the name Nine Eagles is unique.

Beyond Iowa, there is another community also named Nine Eagles in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Florida
      • Hillsborough County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Nine Eagles [Hillsborough County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Nine Eagles ...

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

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)

More Orphans in  Decatur 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 Decatur County.

Bethany Junction 
BracewellHighbrier
Burrell 
 Little River
CoraLong Creek
Crown 
 Patriot
DecaturPrairieville
DeKalb 
 Smith's
ElkSouth Independence
  
FierceTuskeega
Franklin 
 Westerville
Giles 

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>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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