Ballyclough, Iowa

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Ballyclough, Iowa
unincorporated community
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Ballyclough, Iowa
Coordinates: 42°25′33″N90°43′05″W / 42.42583°N 90.71806°W / 42.42583; -90.71806
Country United States
State Iowa
County Dubuque County
Elevation
[1]
1,066 ft (325 m)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
GNIS feature ID454340 [1]

Ballyclough is an unincorporated community in Dubuque County, in the U.S. state of Iowa.

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History

Ballyclough was founded 8 miles from Dubuque. William Kaufman ran the grocery store in Ballyclough. [2] The name of the community is Irish in origin. [3]

The community's [4] population was 25 in 1890, [5] and was 21 in 1900. [6]

In 1947, the Table Mound Township Hall was located in Ballyclough. [7]

References

  1. 1 2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Ballyclough, Iowa
  2. ↑ Iowa State Gazetteer and Business Directory. R.L. Polk & Company. 1918.
  3. ↑ Cook, Pauline (1945). "Iowa Place Names of Foreign Origin" . The Modern Language Journal. 29 (7): 617–628. doi:10.2307/319510. ISSN   0026-7902. JSTOR   319510.
  4. ↑ Board, United States Geographic (1892). Report: 1890. p. 31.
  5. ↑ Cram, George Franklin (1887). Cram's Universal Atlas: Geographical, Astronomical and Historical, Containing a Complete Series of Maps of Modern Geography, Illustrated by Numerous Views and Charts ; the Whole Supplemented with Valuable Statistics, Diagrams, and a Complete Gazetteer of the United States. G.F. Cram. p. 368.
  6. ↑ Cram's Modern Atlas: The New Unrivaled New Census Edition. J. R. Gray & Company. 1902. pp. 203–207.
  7. ↑ "Farmers to Give Reports By Township". Dubuque Telegraph Herald. November 16, 1947. p. 10. Retrieved October 4, 2022.
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