Do you know of Orford ???

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

Our sources for Orford (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 Orford other than they indicate that Orford would be found somewhere in Tama County, Iowa.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1864 and closed  in 1873.

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 Orford ...

We found three communities that share the name Orford.

Within Iowa, the name Orford 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
    • San Joaquin County
    • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Orford [San Joaquin County].
  • New Hampshire
    • Grafton County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New Hampshire community of Orford [Grafton County].
  • Quebec
    • Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Orford.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Orford ...

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

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.

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

More Orphans in  Tama 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 Tama County.