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Another early post office entered into GNIS from the Iowa Geological Survey and lacking any testimony on the topos, and located in a corn field. There is probably some confusion with the township of the same name, but even so I couldn't find anything other than post office listings and location name drops. Mangoe ( talk) 17:10, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
The 1880 Lippincott's Gazetteer matched an Oakfield post-office in an Oakfield Township … in Wisconsin: i.e. Oakfield, Wisconsin and Oakfield (town), Wisconsin. But a few entries above on the same page, not matched, it does indeed have the one in Iowa, and calls it a "post-village", which means that it was more than just someone's farmhouse. (It uses "post-township" and "post-hamlet" similarly.)
The 1929 Annals of Iowa has this in its "Abandoned Towns of Iowa" listing on page 443. ("In southwest part of section 29, Exira Township. It was platted about 1855, soon had mills, stores and was a thriving town until 1868 […]")
Lippincott's goes on to say that it is on the Nishnabatona River (which I presume to be a mis-spelling of Nishnabotna River) and has "2 stores and a flour-mill". Andrews's 1915 History of Audubon County, Iowa at the Internet Archive has a fairly extensive history of the town on page 288, with further stuff on pages 32, 54 (where it explains how it was eclipsed by Brayton, Iowa in 1871), and elsewhere. Looking through the History there seems to be enough from that alone to do an article. So it's not an "unincorporated community", but a village, in fact a town per the Andrews History, that came and went in the 19th century and is in at least one history book in fair depth.
This one is actually fixable. Uncle G ( talk) 18:44, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
The result was Withdrawn. (non-admin closure) Run n Fly ( talk) 19:11, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
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Another early post office entered into GNIS from the Iowa Geological Survey and lacking any testimony on the topos, and located in a corn field. There is probably some confusion with the township of the same name, but even so I couldn't find anything other than post office listings and location name drops. Mangoe ( talk) 17:10, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
The 1880 Lippincott's Gazetteer matched an Oakfield post-office in an Oakfield Township … in Wisconsin: i.e. Oakfield, Wisconsin and Oakfield (town), Wisconsin. But a few entries above on the same page, not matched, it does indeed have the one in Iowa, and calls it a "post-village", which means that it was more than just someone's farmhouse. (It uses "post-township" and "post-hamlet" similarly.)
The 1929 Annals of Iowa has this in its "Abandoned Towns of Iowa" listing on page 443. ("In southwest part of section 29, Exira Township. It was platted about 1855, soon had mills, stores and was a thriving town until 1868 […]")
Lippincott's goes on to say that it is on the Nishnabatona River (which I presume to be a mis-spelling of Nishnabotna River) and has "2 stores and a flour-mill". Andrews's 1915 History of Audubon County, Iowa at the Internet Archive has a fairly extensive history of the town on page 288, with further stuff on pages 32, 54 (where it explains how it was eclipsed by Brayton, Iowa in 1871), and elsewhere. Looking through the History there seems to be enough from that alone to do an article. So it's not an "unincorporated community", but a village, in fact a town per the Andrews History, that came and went in the 19th century and is in at least one history book in fair depth.
This one is actually fixable. Uncle G ( talk) 18:44, 22 May 2021 (UTC)