Do you know of North Des Moines ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about North Des Moines. 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 North Des Moines.

Our sources for North Des Moines (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 North Des Moines other than they indicate that North Des Moines would be found somewhere in Polk County, Iowa.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1888 and closed  in 1899.

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 North Des Moines ...

We found one communities that share the name North Des Moines.

Within Iowa, the name North Des Moines is unique.

Beyond Iowa, there is another community also named North Des Moines in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • New Mexico
    • Union County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of North Des Moines [Union County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for North Des Moines ...

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

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.

More Orphans in  Polk County ...

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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 Polk County.