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Do you know of Whiteburg ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1914 and closed  in 1922.

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 Whiteburg ...

We found one communities that share the name Whiteburg.

Within Iowa, the name Whiteburg is unique.

Beyond Iowa, there is another community also named Whiteburg in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Maryland
      • Worcester County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Whiteburg [Worcester County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Whiteburg ...

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

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  Monroe 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 Monroe County.

CedarHickory
Chisholm 
ClarksvilleShehan Siding
Coalfield 
CoaltonThompsonville
  
East MelroseUrbanna City
  

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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