Guthrie Co. Town History
Current Cities/Towns
Abandoned Towns
from Annuals of Iowa, 1930's
- ADVANCE - In the northwest corner of section 22, Richland Township. Post office, 1871-82.
- ALLEN - In the southeastern part of Jackson Township. Post office, 1853-55.
- ALLENVILLE - A hamlet platted in 1882 in section 3, Highland Township.
It has since become a part of the present town of Bayard.
- AVA - In section 35, Orange Township. Post office, 1875-71.
- BEAR GROVE - A hamlet in the northeastern part of section 24 Bear Grove
Township. Post office 1854-1910.
- BRUSHY VALLEY - In the western part of Orange Township. Post office,
1863-67.
- DALMANUTHA - In the central part of section 5, Thompson Township. It
was laid out in 1855 and became a business place of importance on a main stage line. Post office, 1863-75.
- DODGE - In western part of Highland Township. Post office, 1859-81
- ERASTUS - In the eastern part of section 26, Orange Township. Post office,
1885-1903.
- FAIRVIEW - The name by which the village of Morrisburg (see below)
was know for the first year or two of its existence.
- GOPHER STATION. See Wilmington below.
- GRACEVILLE - In the northwestern part of Baker Township, as shown on
maps of 1887.
- GUTHRIE - The name of the post office At Menlo for the first few months
of its existence.
- HARBOR STATION - In the southeastern part of Jackson Township on the
overland stage route in the late 1850's and early 1860's.
- HARRISON - In the southwestern part of Union Township, as appears on
maps of 1878.
- LEADVILLE - A post office in the southern part of Valley. Township,
established in 1879 but discontinued when the village of Montieth was started.
- MACKSVILLE - A post office from 1862 to 1868 about two miles east of
the present town of Stuart.
- MAIDA - In the western part of Seeley Township. Post office. 1863-65.
- MOFFITT'S GROVE - In the northern part of Victory Township, Post office,
1858-83.
- MORRISBURG - A village of some pretensions in sections 4 and 5, Jackson Township. Laid out in 1855. Post office 1857-65.
- NELSON - In the southwestern part of Union Township. Post office, 1885-1903.
- PENNSBURG - Slightly east of where the present town of Stuart now stands
as shown on the maps: of 1855 to 1857.
- RIDGEWAY - In the southern part of section 28, Beaver Township, about
one mile west of where the present town of Menlo is located.
- SAFESIDE - In the western part of section 6, Thompson Township. Post
office, 1897-1904.
- SEDALIA - The name first given the present town of Jamaica, but on being
platted later in the same year, 1882, it was named Van Nest, but shortly thereafter
changed to Jamaica.
- TUTTLE GROVE - In section 20, Orange Township. Post office, 1875-77.
- VAN NEST - (See Sedalia above.)
- WEST MILTON - In the southwestern part of section 10, Penn Township,
A town was platted in 1855 but only a few buildings were erected. Post office
1856-61.
- WILKINS - In the southwest quarter of section 23, Highland Township,
near the banks of the Middle Raccoon River. A town was laid out here but proved
to be on a town on paper
- WILSONS - In the south section 9 of Cass Township, about two miles
southeast of Panora, as shown on maps of 1857.
- WILMINGTON - A village platted in 1857 on government lots 1, 2 and 8,
section 4, Thompson Township. Because of the appearance of its sod houses it was jokingly called Gopher Station, and the name stuck. Abandoned when Dalmanutha, a mile and a half southwest, grew up.