Do you know of Pottsville ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1839 and closed in 1860.

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 Pottsville ...

We found ten communities that share the name Pottsville.

Within Iowa, the name Pottsville is unique.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
  - Pope County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Pottsville [Pope County].
- Idaho
  - Shoshone County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Pottsville [Shoshone County].
- Illinois
  - Union County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Pottsville [Union County].
- Kentucky
  - Graves County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Pottsville [Graves County].
  - Washington County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Pottsville [Washington County].
- Louisiana
  - De Soto Parish
  - 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 Louisiana community of Pottsville [De Soto Parish].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Pottsville.
- Pennsylvania
  - Schuylkill County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Pottsville [Schuylkill County].
- Tennessee
  - Maury County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Pottsville [Maury County].
- Texas
  - Hamilton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Pottsville [Hamilton County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Pottsville ...

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

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
Taken from The Annals of Iowa (Volume 18, Issue 3 - Winter 1932)
Written by: Mott, David C.

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

More Orphans in Washington 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 Washington County.

Bethel
	New Haven
Cedarville
Clay	Pilotburg

Davis Creek	Seventy-six Center

Juan	Titus

Marcellus	Verdi

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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Pottsville 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.

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A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/