Do you know of Northwest ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Northwest, so we are uncertain whether Northwest is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Northwest would be found somewhere in Linn County, Iowa.

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 Northwest ...

We found thirteen communities that share the name Northwest.

There is one other community in Iowa which is also named Northwest.

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

Communities Located In Iowa ...
- Scott 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 Iowa community of Northwest [Scott County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Florida
  - Miami-Dade 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 Florida community of Northwest [Miami-Dade County].
- Nebraska
  - 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 Nebraska community of Northwest [Douglas County].
- North Carolina
  - Brunswick County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Northwest [Brunswick County].
- Nova Scotia
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Northwest.
- Ohio
  - Franklin 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 Ohio community of Northwest [Franklin County].
  - Williams County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Northwest [Williams County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Centre 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 Pennsylvania community of Northwest [Centre County].
  - Tioga County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Northwest [Tioga County].
  - Westmoreland 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 Pennsylvania community of Northwest [Westmoreland County].
- Texas
  - Travis 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 Texas community of Northwest [Travis County].
- Virginia
  - Chesapeake City
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Northwest [Chesapeake City].
  - Norfolk City
  - 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 Virginia community of Northwest [Norfolk City].

More Orphans in Linn 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 Linn County.

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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Northwest 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.