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Do you know of Oak Spring ???This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Oak Spring. 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 Oak Spring. Our sources for Oak Spring (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 Oak Spring other than they indicate that Oak Spring would be found somewhere in Davis County, Iowa. From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1850 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 Oak Spring ...We found two communities that share the name Oak Spring. Within Iowa, the name Oak Spring is unique. Beyond Iowa, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Oak Spring ...We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Oak Spring: 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
Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Oak Spring - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned Iowa State Gazetteers
List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
More Orphans in Davis 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 Davis County.
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