Nansen, Iowa
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Nansen was an unincorporated community in Chickasaw County, Iowa, United States. It was at the junction of 170th Street and Pembroke Avenue.{{gnis|464080}}
History
File:Chickasaw County Iowa 1903.png Nansen was established in Section 10 of Jacksonville Township,{{Cite web |last=Mott |first=David C. |year=1930 |url=https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5424&context=annals-of-iowa |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151130161311/http://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5424&context=annals-of-iowa |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 30, 2015 |title=Abandoned Towns, Villages and Post Offices of Iowa |access-date=2021-07-30 |page=459}}{{refn|group=note|name=mansen|The name was misspelled as Mansen in the 1930 Annals of Iowa publication; this was noted and corrected in the 1931 edition.}} a few miles northeast of the county seat of New Hampton.
Nansen's post office operated from 1897 to 1904.{{Cite encyclopedia |title=GNIS Detail - Nansen Post Office (historical) |url=https://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=138:3:::NO:3:P3_FID,P3_TITLE:1948645,Nansen%2520Post%2520Office%2520%2528historical%2529}} The community's population was 22 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}}
Nansen was noted in a 1932 article about Chickasaw County's lost villages.{{Cite news |date=1932-01-27 |title=Chickasaw County's Abandoned Villages |page=1 |work=Nashua Reporter |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/nashua-reporter-jan-27-1932-p-1/ }}
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Category:Unincorporated communities in Chickasaw County, Iowa