Plum Creek, Iowa

Plum Creek is a ghost town in Kossuth County, in the U.S. state of Iowa. A railroad station was once located at Plum Creek.^[1]

History

Plum Creek contained a post office from 1902 until 1904.^[2]^[3] The hamlet took its name from nearby Plum Creek.^[4]

References

↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Plum Creek (historical)
↑ "Kossuth County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Plum Creek Post Office (historical)
↑ Chicago and North Western Railway Company (1908). A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways. p. 114.

Municipalities and communities of Kossuth County, Iowa, United States

County seat: Algona

Cities	Algona Bancroft Burt Fenton Lakota Ledyard Lone Rock Lu Verne‡ Swea City Titonka Wesley West Bend‡ Whittemore

Townships	Buffalo Burt Cresco Eagle Fenton Garfield German Grant Greenwood Harrison Hebron Irvington Ledyard Lincoln Lotts Creek Lu Verne Plum Creek Portland Prairie Ramsey Riverdale Seneca Sherman Springfield Swea Union Wesley Whittemore

CDPs	Irvington Sexton St. Benedict St. Joseph

Unincorporated communities	Galbraith Gerled

Ghost town	Plum Creek

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

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