Do you know of Iona ???

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

We found mention of Iona as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Tarrant County, Texas.

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.

Communities Also Named Iona ...

We found eighteen communities that share the name Iona.

There is one other community in Texas which is also named Iona.

Beyond Texas, we know of another seventeen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these seventeen communities, fourteen are located in the United States and four are in Canada.

Communities Located In Texas ...
- Parker County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Iona [Parker County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Florida
  - Lee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Iona [Lee County].
- Idaho
  - Bonneville County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Iona [Bonneville County].
- Indiana
  - Knox County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Iona [Knox County].
- Minnesota
  - Murray County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Iona [Murray County].
- Missouri
  - Cape Girardeau County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Iona [Cape Girardeau County].
  - Worth County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Iona [Worth County].
- Montana
  - Dawson 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 Montana community of Iona [Dawson County].
- New Jersey
  - Gloucester County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Iona [Gloucester County].
- Newfoundland and Labrador
  - Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of Iona.
- Nova Scotia
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Iona.
- Ohio
  - Ashtabula County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Iona [Ashtabula County].
- Oklahoma
  - Murray County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Iona [Murray County].
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Iona.
- Pennsylvania
  - Lebanon County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Iona [Lebanon County].
- Prince Edward Island
  - Please visit our profile page for the Prince Edward Island community of Iona.
- South Dakota
  - Lyman County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Iona [Lyman County].
- Washington
  - Adams 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 Washington community of Iona [Adams County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Iona ...

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Iona - Services available: had a Railroad Station, no Post Office mentioned

Rand McNally Map of Texas (1897)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

Rand McNally Map of Texas (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in Tarrant 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 Tarrant 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 Iona 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.