Do you know of Sweetland ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1851 and closed  in 1907.

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 Sweetland ...

We found four communities that share the name Sweetland.

Within Iowa, the name Sweetland is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • California
    • Nevada County
    • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Sweetland [Nevada County].
  • Nova Scotia
    • Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Sweetland.
  • South Dakota
    • Hand County
    • Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Sweetland [Hand County].
  • West Virginia
    • Lincoln County
    • Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Sweetland [Lincoln County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Sweetland ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Sweetland - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

Rand McNally Map of Iowa (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Prairies East & Ozarks
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2004
(Available from Amazon.com)

More Orphans in  Muscatine 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 Muscatine County.