Do you know of Harker ???

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

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

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1916 and closed  in 1919.

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 Harker ...

We found one communities that share the name Harker.

Within Wisconsin, the name Harker is unique.

Beyond Wisconsin, there is another community also named Harker in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Florida
    • Collier County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Harker [Collier County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Harker ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Great Lakes West
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2005
(Available from Amazon.com)

More Orphans in  Iowa 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 Iowa County.