Do you know of Iola ???

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

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Iola, so we are uncertain whether Iola is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Iola would be found somewhere in Doniphan County, Kansas.

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 Iola ...

We found sixteen communities that share the name Iola.

There is one other community in Kansas which is also named Iola.

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

Communities Located In Kansas ...
- Allen County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Iola [Allen County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Covington 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 Alabama community of Iola [Covington County].
- Colorado
  - Gunnison County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Iola [Gunnison County].
- Florida
  - Calhoun 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 Florida community of Iola [Calhoun County].
  - Gulf County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Iola [Gulf County].
- Illinois
  - Clay County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Iola [Clay County].
- Iowa
  - Pottawattamie County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Iola [Pottawattamie County].
- Kentucky
  - Marshall County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Iola [Marshall County].
- New Mexico
  - Luna County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Mexico community of Iola [Luna County].
- North Carolina
  - Alamance 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 North Carolina community of Iola [Alamance County].
- North Dakota
  - 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 North Dakota community of Iola [Ramsey County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Columbia County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Iola [Columbia County].
- South Carolina
  - Anderson 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 South Carolina community of Iola [Anderson County].
- Texas
  - Grimes County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Iola [Grimes County].
- West Virginia
  - Roane County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Iola [Roane County].
- Wisconsin
  - Waupaca County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Iola [Waupaca County].

More Orphans in Doniphan 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 Doniphan County.

Footnotes ...

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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 Iola 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.