Iveyville, Iowa

Iveyville is an unincorporated community or ghost town[2] in Adams County, Iowa, United States.[1]

Iveyville, Iowa
Unincorporated community
Iveyville, Iowa is located in Iowa
Iveyville, Iowa
Iveyville, Iowa
Coordinates: 40°54′03″N 94°47′45″W
CountryUnited States
StateIowa
CountyAdams
Elevation
1,289 ft (393 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code641
GNIS feature ID457878[1]

History
Adams County, Iowa, in 1903, showing the location of Iveyville.

A post office was opened in Iveyville in 1885, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1903.[2] The community was named for B.F. Ivey, who lived in nearby Corning before relocating to Iveyville.[3]

Iveyville, located in Jasper Township,[2] was described as a "prosperous village",[4] with a woodmen's hall and the Farmers Creamery in the late 1800s.[5][6] 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.[3]

Iveyville's population was 46 in 1902,[7] but the closure of the post office in the community "finished" the village, according to a news story in the Adams County Free Press.[4] In 1922, the last business in Iveyville, the blacksmith shop, relocated to nearby Nodaway.[4] By 1925, Iveyville's population was 30.[8]

By the 1930s, Iveyville was no longer marked on regional maps, and did not appear on the 1930 Adams County plat map.

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Iveyville, Iowa
  2. "Adams County". Iowa Ghost Towns. Archived from the original on September 25, 2013. Retrieved August 6, 2014.
  3. "Iveyville". Adams County Free Press. December 22, 1898. p. 19. Retrieved May 24, 2021.
  4. "Last Business Institution Leaving Once Prosperous village". Adams County Free Press. May 26, 1922. p. 5. Retrieved June 12, 2021.
  5. General Assembly, Iowa (1894). Legislative Documents of the Iowa General Assembly, Volume 3. p. 40.
  6. Tenth Annual Report of the State Dairy Commissioner to the Governor of the State of Iowa. G.H. Ragsdale, State printer. 1896.
  7. Cram's Modern Atlas: The New Unrivaled New Census Edition. J. R. Gray & Company. 1902. pp. 203–207.
  8. 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. Rand McNally & Company. 1925. p. 189.


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