Do you know of Woodbury ???
This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Woodbury. 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 Woodbury.
Our sources for Woodbury (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 Woodbury other than they indicate that Woodbury would be found somewhere in Woodbury County, Iowa.
From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1862 and closed in 1870.
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 Woodbury ...
We found 24 communities that share the name Woodbury.
Within Iowa, the name Woodbury is unique.
Beyond Iowa, we know of another 24 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 24 communities, 23 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Connecticut
- Litchfield County
- Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Woodbury [Litchfield County].
- Delaware
- Kent County
- Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Woodbury [Kent County].
- Georgia
- Meriwether County
- Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Woodbury [Meriwether County].
- Illinois
- Cumberland County
- Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Woodbury [Cumberland County].
- Indiana
- Hancock County
- Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Woodbury [Hancock County].
- Kentucky
- Butler County
- Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Woodbury [Butler County].
- Michigan
- Eaton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Woodbury [Eaton County].
- Minnesota
- Carlton County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Woodbury [Carlton County].
- Ramsey County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Woodbury [Ramsey County].
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Woodbury [Washington County].
- New Jersey
- Gloucester County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Woodbury [Gloucester County].
- New Mexico
- Sandoval County
- Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Woodbury [Sandoval County].
- New York
- Nassau County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Woodbury [Nassau County].
- Orange County
- Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Woodbury [Orange County].
- Queens County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New York community of Woodbury [Queens County].
- Ohio
- Ontario
- Pennsylvania
- Bedford County
- Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Woodbury [Bedford County].
- South Carolina
- Marion County
- Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Woodbury [Marion County].
- Tennessee
- Cannon County
- Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Woodbury [Cannon County].
- Texas
- Hill County
- Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Woodbury [Hill County].
- Utah
- Salt Lake County
- Please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Woodbury [Salt Lake County].
- Vermont
- Washington County
- Please visit our profile page for the Vermont community of Woodbury [Washington County].
- Connecticut
Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Woodbury ...
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Woodbury:
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.
Iowa State Gazetteers
Written by: Hair, James T.
Published by Bailey & Hair
(Available from Amazon.com)
More Orphans in Woodbury 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 Woodbury County.
| Brughier Bridge | |
| North Side | |
| Crawford | |
| Odd | |
| Discord | |
| Dodds | Peiro |
| Gale | Rock Branch |
| German City | |
| Sargent's Bluffs | |
| Hedge's Siding | Shore Acres |
| Hoskins | |
| Wickham Spur | |
| Lakeport | Wolfdale |
| Lozier |
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Woodbury could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |
| <2> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |