Do you know of Trout River ???

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

Our sources for Trout River (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 Trout River other than they indicate that Trout River would be found somewhere in Winneshiek County, Iowa.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1852 and closed  in 1855.

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 Trout River ...

We found three communities that share the name Trout River.

Within Iowa, the name Trout River is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • New York
    • Franklin County
    • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Trout River [Franklin County].
  • Newfoundland and Labrador
    • Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of Trout River.
  • Quebec
    • Please visit our profile page for the Quebec community of Trout River.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Trout River ...

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

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  Winneshiek 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 Winneshiek County.