Do you know of Tranquility ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1870 and closed in 1880.

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 Tranquility ...

We found eight communities that share the name Tranquility.

Within Iowa, the name Tranquility is unique.

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

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
  - Fresno 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 California community of Tranquility [Fresno County].
- Maryland
  - Anne Arundel County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Tranquility [Anne Arundel County].
  - Calvert County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Tranquility [Calvert County].
  - Frederick County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Tranquility [Frederick County].
- New Jersey
  - Sussex County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Tranquility [Sussex County].
- North Carolina
  - Henderson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Tranquility [Henderson County].
- Ohio
  - Adams County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Tranquility [Adams County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Tranquility.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Tranquility ...

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

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.

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

More Orphans in Appanoose 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 Appanoose County.

Beetrace
	Millideville
Caldwell
Crete	Niles

Darby	Pearl City
Dennis
Diff	Ray
	Relay
Harkes
	Sharon
Kemigala	Shawville
Kirkwood
	Walsh
Livingston

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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Tranquility 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/