Do you know of Northam ???

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

Our sources for Northam (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 Northam other than they indicate that Northam would be found somewhere in Buena Vista County, Iowa.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1900 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 Northam ...

We found three communities that share the name Northam.

Within Iowa, the name Northam is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • California
    • Orange County
    • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Northam [Orange County].
  • Nevada
    • Churchill County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Northam [Churchill County].
  • Prince Edward Island
    • Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Northam.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Northam ...

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

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  Buena Vista 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 Buena Vista County.