Do you know of Prairie House ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Prairie House. 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 Prairie House.<1>

Our sources for Prairie House (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 Prairie House other than they indicate that Prairie House would be found somewhere in Lee County, Iowa.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1843 and closed  in 1850.

Communities Also Named Prairie House ...

We found one communities that share the name Prairie House.

Within Iowa, the name Prairie House is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • California
    • Yuba County
    • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Prairie House [Yuba County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Prairie House ...

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

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.

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

More Orphans in  Lee 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 Lee County.