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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1851 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 Poultney ...

We found one communities that share the name Poultney.

Within Iowa, the name Poultney is unique.

Beyond Iowa, there is another community also named Poultney in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Vermont
    • Rutland County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Poultney [Rutland County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Poultney ...

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

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.

More Orphans in  Delaware 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 Delaware County.