Arbor Hill, Iowa

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Arbor Hill, Iowa
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Arbor Hill, Iowa
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Arbor Hill, Iowa
Arbor Hill, Iowa (the United States)
Coordinates: 41°22′00″N94°19′06″W / 41.36667°N 94.31833°W / 41.36667; -94.31833
Country Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
State Flag of Iowa.svg  Iowa
County Adair County
Elevation
344 m (1,129 ft)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
  Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code 641

Arbor Hill is an unincorporated community or ghost town [1] in Adair County, Iowa, United States. [2]

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Geography

It is located on County Road P28, south of Stuart, at 41.366543N, -94.317809W. [3]

History

Adair County, showing the location of Arbor Hill in Iowa in 1903. Adair County, Iowa map from 1903.png
Adair County, showing the location of Arbor Hill in Iowa in 1903.

A post office was established at Arbor Hill in 1857, the name was changed to Arborhill in 1895, and the post office closed in 1907. [4] [5]

Arbor Hill's population was 58 in 1902. [6] The community was once home to the Arbor Hill Co-Operative Creamery Company, [7] a blacksmith shop, [1] and a general store; [1] the Port Union Mill dam was located one half mile west of Arbor Hill, on the Middle River. [8] The community (at that time known as Arborhill) was the site of the Seventh Annual Old Settlers and Old Soldiers Reunion, held on August 12, 13, and 14, 1908. [9]

The Methodist church in Greenfield, constructed in 1877, was built from lumber cut near Arbor Hill. [10]

Arborhill's population was 68 in 1924. [11] The 1930 plat book of Adair County shows Arbor Hill platted in the southeast quadrant of Section 20 of Harrison Township, with the community covering one quarter square mile. [12]

Arbor Hill's population was 12 in 1940. [13]

In 2018, the Arbor Hill Wind Farm project began, with the MidAmerican Energy Company building enough wind turbines in Arbor Hill and nearby Orient to power 230,000 homes. [14]

See also

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References

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  2. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Arbor Hill, Iowa
  3. "US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990". United States Census Bureau. February 12, 2011. Archived from the original on July 20, 2006. Retrieved April 23, 2011.
  4. Kilburn, Lucian Moody (1915). History of Adair County, Iowa, and Its People. Pioneer Publishing Company. p.  162.
  5. "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Archived from the original on July 3, 2011. Retrieved June 21, 2017.
  6. Cram's Modern Atlas: The New Unrivaled New Census Edition. J. R. Gray & Company. 1902. pp. 203–207. Archived from the original on December 29, 2023. Retrieved June 3, 2021.
  7. 1904 Complete Creamery Directory of the United States. National Dairy Union. 1904. p. 64.
  8. Condra, George Evert; Jerry Eli Upp (1933). The Middle River Traverse of Iowa. p. 23.
  9. "The Des Moines Register from Des Moines, Iowa on August 3, 1908 · Page 7". Archived from the original on May 22, 2021. Retrieved May 22, 2021.
  10. Kilburn, Lucian M. (1915). History of Adair County, Iowa, and its People (vol 1). Pioneer Publishing Company. Archived from the original on December 8, 2021. Retrieved May 22, 2021.
  11. 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. 188. Archived from the original on December 29, 2023. Retrieved June 12, 2021.
  12. Plat book of Adair County, Iowa. 1930. Archived from the original on May 22, 2021. Retrieved May 22, 2021.
  13. The Attorneys List. United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company, Attorney List Department. 1940. p. 292. Archived from the original on November 3, 2022. Retrieved November 21, 2022.
  14. Robinson, Tom (June 22, 2018). "Construction has started on the Arbor Hill Wind Farm Project in Adair County". Archived from the original on January 7, 2024. Retrieved May 22, 2021.