Official Name: | Iveyville, Iowa |
Pushpin Map: | Iowa |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Iowa |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Adams |
Timezone: | Central (CST) |
Utc Offset: | -6 |
Timezone Dst: | CDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -5 |
Elevation Ft: | 1289 |
Coordinates: | 40.9008°N -94.7958°W |
Area Code: | 641 |
Blank Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank Info: | 457878 |
Iveyville is an unincorporated community or ghost town in Adams County, Iowa, United States.
A post office was opened in Iveyville in 1885, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1903.[1] The community was named for B.F. Ivey, who lived in nearby Corning before relocating to Iveyville.[2]
Iveyville, located in Jasper Township,[1] was described as a "prosperous village", with a woodmen's hall and the Farmers Creamery in the late 1800s.[3] [4] Iveyville's only church was the Methodist Episcopal church; a general store was operated by O. T. Muzzy. The community also had a town hall on the second floor of the store, as well as a blacksmith shop and a grist mill. The Tanner Bros operated a hardware store in Iveyville.[2]
Iveyville's population was 46 in 1902,[5] but the closure of the post office in the community "finished" the village, according to a news story in the Adams County Free Press. In 1922, the last business in Iveyville, the blacksmith shop, relocated to nearby Nodaway.[6] By 1925, Iveyville's population was 30.[7]
By the 1930s, Iveyville was no longer marked on regional maps, and did not appear on the 1930 Adams County plat map.