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Do you know of Pin Oak ???This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Pin Oak. 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 Pin Oak. Our sources for Pin Oak (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 Pin Oak other than they indicate that Pin Oak would be found somewhere in Dubuque County, Iowa. From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1844 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 Pin Oak ...We found two communities that share the name Pin Oak. Within Iowa, the name Pin Oak is unique. Beyond Iowa, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States.
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Pin Oak ...We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Pin Oak: 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 Pin Oak - 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)
U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
More Orphans in Dubuque 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 Dubuque County.
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