Do you know of Tyro ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1862 and closed  in 1873.

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 Tyro ...

We found five communities that share the name Tyro.

Within Iowa, the name Tyro is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Arkansas
    • Lincoln County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Tyro [Lincoln County].
  • Kansas
    • Montgomery County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Tyro [Montgomery County].
  • Mississippi
    • Tate County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Tyro [Tate County].
  • North Carolina
    • Davidson County
    • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Tyro [Davidson County].
  • Virginia
    • Nelson County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Tyro [Nelson County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Tyro ...

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

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.

Iowa State Gazetteers
Written by: Hair, James T.
Published by Bailey & Hair
(Available from Amazon.com)

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

More Orphans in  Poweshiek 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 Poweshiek County.