Do you know of Wickliffe ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1843 and closed  in 1874.

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 Wickliffe ...

We found seven communities that share the name Wickliffe.

Within Iowa, the name Wickliffe is unique.

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

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Indiana
    • Crawford County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Wickliffe [Crawford County].
  • Kentucky
    • Ballard County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Wickliffe [Ballard County].
  • Louisiana
    • Pointe Coupee Parish
    • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Wickliffe [Pointe Coupee Parish].
  • Ohio
    • Lake County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Wickliffe [Lake County].
    • Mahoning County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Wickliffe [Mahoning County].
  • Oklahoma
    • Mayes County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Wickliffe [Mayes County].
  • Virginia
    • Clarke County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Wickliffe [Clarke County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Wickliffe ...

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

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

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

More Orphans in  Jackson 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 Jackson County.