It is located on County Road P28, south of Stuart, at 41.366543N, -94.317809W.[3]
History
Adair County, showing the location of Arbor Hill in Iowa in 1903.
A post office was established at Arbor Hill in 1857, the name was changed to Arborhill in 1895, and the post office closed in 1907.[4][5]
Arbor Hill's population was 58 in 1902.[6] The community was once home to the Arbor Hill Co-Operative Creamery Company,[7] a blacksmith shop,[1] and a general store;[1] the Port Union Mill dam was located one half mile west of Arbor Hill, on the Middle River.[8] The community (at that time known as Arborhill) was the site of the Seventh Annual Old Settlers and Old Soldiers Reunion, held on August 12, 13, and 14, 1908.[9]
The Methodist church in Greenfield, constructed in 1877, was built from lumber cut near Arbor Hill.[10]
Arborhill's population was 68 in 1924.[11] The 1930 plat book of Adair County shows Arbor Hill platted in the southeast quadrant of Section 20 of Harrison Township, with the community covering one quarter square mile.[12]
In 2018, the Arbor Hill Wind Farm project began, with the MidAmerican Energy Company building enough wind turbines in Arbor Hill and nearby Orient to power 230,000 homes.[14]
^The Attorneys List. United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company, Attorney List Department. 1940. p. 292. Archived from the original on November 3, 2022. Retrieved November 21, 2022.
