Do you know of Spring Branch ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1854 and closed in 1856.

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 Spring Branch ...

We found nine communities that share the name Spring Branch.

Within Iowa, the name Spring Branch is unique.

Beyond Iowa, we know of another nine communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Georgia
  - Appling County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Spring Branch [Appling County].
  - Effingham County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Spring Branch [Effingham County].
- Kansas
  - Butler County
  - 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 Kansas community of Spring Branch [Butler County].
- Maryland
  - Caroline County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Spring Branch [Caroline County].
- Missouri
  - Jackson County
  - 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 Missouri community of Spring Branch [Jackson County].
- South Carolina
  - Aiken County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Spring Branch [Aiken County].
  - Marion County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Spring Branch [Marion County].
- Texas
  - Comal County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Spring Branch [Comal County].
  - Smith County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Spring Branch [Smith County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Spring Branch ...

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

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.

More Orphans in Delaware 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 Delaware County.

Almira	Colony
Almoral Station
	Golden Prairie
Barryville	Green Hill
Bay	Grove Creek
Broadway
	Plum Spring
Campton	Poultney

Footnotes ...

<1>

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 Spring Branch 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/