Official Name: | Kemling, Iowa |
Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community |
Pushpin Map: | Iowa |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Iowa |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Pottawattamie |
Timezone: | Central (CST) |
Utc Offset: | -6 |
Timezone Dst: | CDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -5 |
Coordinates: | 41.1667°N -95.2786°W |
Area Code: | 712 |
Blank Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank Info: | 464242[1] |
Kemling or Kemlingham is a ghost town in Pottawattamie County, in the U.S. state of Iowa.
Kemling was located at 41.1667°N -95.2786°W,[1] 8.5 miles east of Macedonia, Iowa.
Kemling was founded as a post office on the Burlington Railroad.[2] This post office operated from 1894 to 1901.[3] After the post office closure, mail was routed through Macedonia.[2]
By the early 1900s, Kemling was listed among other Iowa towns and villages in Iowa's legislative documents.[4] Kemling's population was 10 in 1900.[5]
The population of Kemling was 26 in 1915,[6] 6 in 1925,[7] and was just 4 persons in 1940.[8]