| Yarmouth, Iowa | |
| Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community |
| Pushpin Map: | USA Iowa |
| Pushpin Label: | Yarmouth |
| Pushpin Label Position: | left |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within the state of Iowa |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | United States |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Iowa |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Des Moines |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Area Footnotes: | [1] |
| Area Total Km2: | 4.43 |
| Area Land Km2: | 4.43 |
| Area Water Km2: | 0.00 |
| Population As Of: | 2020 |
| Population Total: | 61 |
| Population Density Km2: | 13.76 |
| Timezone: | Central (CST) |
| Utc Offset: | -6 |
| Timezone Dst: | CDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -5 |
| Coordinates: | 41.0264°N -91.3236°W |
| Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
| Postal Code: | 52660[2] |
| Area Code: | 319 |
| Blank Name: | FIPS code |
| Blank Info: | 19-87330 |
| Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
| Area Total Sq Mi: | 1.71 |
| Area Land Sq Mi: | 1.71 |
| Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.00 |
| Population Density Sq Mi: | 35.65 |
Yarmouth is an unincorporated community in northwestern Des Moines County, Iowa, United States.
The village was laid out by Andrew C Kline after arriving here in 1876 and opening a general store. Around the same time, a blacksmith set up shop here.[3]
In 1881, around the time the Burlington and Northwestern Railway arrived, the La Vega post office, originally about a mile to the east, was moved here and renamed Yarmouth.[4] By 1885, the village had close to 100 residents, and included 3 general stores, a drug store, blacksmith shop, billiard hall, and two churches.[5] In 1897, Yarmouth had a stock yard across the tracks from the depot, two grain elevators, and the Starker Brother's Lumber Yard and Corn Cribs. The post office was across the street from a bank, and there was a Baptist and a Methodist Episcopal church, along with perhaps 20 houses. Many of the vacant lots were owned by the Narrow Gauge Land Company.[6]
In 1902, Yarmouth's population was 55.[7] By 1905, There was a Masonic lodge, Federal Lodge No, 445, and the Mutual Telephone Company of Yarmouth was in business.[8]
Yarmouth is located on a broad low ridge that has been identified as a terminal moraine of the Illinoian glaciation. The land to the west is pre-illinoian, while the land to the east of this ridge is Illinoian glacial till. Geological investigation of wells drilled in Yarmouth led to the discovery of a paleosol on top of the pre-illinoian surface and buried under the terminal moraine. This has been named the Yarmouth paleosol, and the interglacial era during which this soil layer was built was formerly called the Yarmouth interglacial.[9]
205th Avenue passes north–south through Yarmouth at an elevation of 810 feet above sea level; this forms part of Des Moines County Highway X31.[10]