Churchville, Iowa

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Churchville, Iowa
unincorporated community
Country	United States
State	Iowa
County	Warren County
Time zone	Central (CST) (UTC-6)
• Summer (DST)	CDT (UTC-5)

Churchville is an unincorporated community in Warren County, Iowa, United States. It is located at the intersection of Churchville Street and 30th Avenue. It is 1.5 miles southwest of Prole and two miles north of Martensdale, at 41.3967873N -93.7509298W.^[1]

History

Churchville was founded by John Churchman in 1854. The Church of the Assumption, a Catholic church, was constructed in 1859; the oldest Catholic church in the county, it was destroyed in a fire in March 1933.^[2]

A rail line was established at Churchville by the late 1800s. Rail service to Churchville was discontinued in July 1921.^[2]

References

↑ "US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990". United States Census Bureau. 2011-02-12. Retrieved 2011-04-23.
↑ 2.0 2.1 Warren County, Iowa. Iowa GenWeb Project. Accessed 2011-05-15

v t e Municipalities and communities of Warren County, Iowa, United States

County seat: Indianola

Cities	Ackworth Bevington‡ Carlisle‡ Cumming Des Moines‡ Hartford Indianola Lacona Martensdale Milo New Virginia Norwalk‡ Sandyville Spring Hill St. Marys West Des Moines‡

Unincorporated communities	Beech Churchville Liberty Center Prole

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

Coordinates: 41°23′48″N 93°45′04″W / 41.39667°N 93.75111°W / 41.39667; -93.75111

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