Do you know of Weeping Willow ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Weeping Willow. 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 Weeping Willow.<1>

Our sources for Weeping Willow (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 Weeping Willow other than they indicate that Weeping Willow would be found somewhere in Davis County, Iowa.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1852 and closed in 1856.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Weeping Willow ...

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

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 Davis 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 Davis County.

Albany	Noblesville
Ask Grove	Nottingham

Bunch	Oak Spring

Hall	Soap Creek
Harbour	Stilesville
	Stringtown
Lewiston
Lost Rock	Taylor
	Tippo
Mount Calvary
	Uncle Abe

Footnotes ...

<1>	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.
<2>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/