Clarkson, Iowa

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Clarkson was an unincorporated community in Warren County, Iowa, United States. It was located two miles east of Carlisle,{{Cite web |title=Towns in Warren County Iowa |url=http://iagenweb.org/warren/towns/towns.html |access-date=2021-06-28 |website=iagenweb.org}} near the Des Moines River. Its elevation was 935 feet.

History

Clarkson was founded as a whistle-stop along the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, but never grew very large. Clarkson's population was 30 in 1887,{{Cite book |last=Cram |first=George Franklin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CPAwAQAAMAAJ&dq=cram%2527s+1885+atlas&pg=PA330 |title=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 |date=1887 |publisher=G.F. Cram |pages=367–369 |language=en}} 16 in 1902,{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9AzrWecxN1wC |title=Cram's Modern Atlas: The New Unrivaled New Census Edition |date=1902 |publisher=J. R. Gray & Company |pages=203–207 |language=en}} and 32 in 1925.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WqRRAQAAMAAJ |title=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 |date=1925 |publisher=Rand McNally & Company |pages=190 |language=en}}

Clarkson was a "once-thriving whistle-stop of the Victorian era" located on the Des Moines River floodplain.{{Cite journal |last=Osborn, Nancy Mae |year=1976 |title=The Clarkson site (13WA2): an Oneota manifestation in the Central Des Moines River Valley |url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/38926725.pdf}} According to author Nancy Mae Osborn, "The Clarkson post office was discontinued on 30 June 1906 and its former patrons received delivery out of Carlisle [...] Gradually the buildings that had once comprised Clarkson were torn down, leaving only two farm houses. These, along with the Clarkson railroad depot sign, were removed in 1967 after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had acquired the property." Today nothing remains of the Clarkson townsite.

References

Category:Unincorporated communities in Warren County, Iowa

Category:Unincorporated communities in Iowa