Iveyville, Iowa Explained

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.

History

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.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Adams County . Iowa Ghost Towns . 6 August 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130925223135/http://www.iowaghosttowns.com/adams_county_iowa_ghost_towns.html . September 25, 2013 .
  2. News: 1898-12-22 . Iveyville . 19 . Adams County Free Press . 2021-05-24.
  3. Book: Legislative Documents of the Iowa General Assembly, Volume 3 . 1894 . 40 . en. General Assembly . Iowa .
  4. Book: Tenth Annual Report of the State Dairy Commissioner to the Governor of the State of Iowa . G.H. Ragsdale, State printer . 1896 . en.
  5. Book: Cram's Modern Atlas: The New Unrivaled New Census Edition . 1902 . J. R. Gray & Company . 203–207 . en.
  6. News: 1922-05-26 . Last Business Institution Leaving Once Prosperous village . 5 . Adams County Free Press . 2021-06-12.
  7. Book: Premier Atlas of the World: Containing Maps of All Countries of the World, with the Most Recent Boundary Decisions, and Maps of All the States,territories, and Possessions of the United States with Population Figures from the Latest Official Census Reports, Also Data of Interest Concerning International and Domestic Political Questions . 1925 . Rand McNally & Company . 189 . en.