Green Castle, Iowa

Green Castle, Iowa
Unincorporated community
Green Castle, Iowa
Coordinates: 41°44′46″N 93°15′42″W
Country	United States
State	Iowa
County	Jasper
Elevation	915 ft (279 m)
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
GNIS feature ID	457098[1]

Green Castle, also spelled Greencastle, is an unincorporated community in Jasper County, in the U.S. state of Iowa.

Geography

Green Castle lies along the junction of North 51st Avenue W and West 112th Street N, a half mile west of Iowa Highway 117.[1]

History

Greencastle in northwestern Jasper County, Iowa, 1902

Greencastle was platted in Section 16 of Powesheik Township. The first settler, in 1846, was Joseph Slaughter. A school was built there in 1849, a flour mill followed in 1875, and in 1878 15 buildings were constructed in Greencastle.[2]

The Greencastle post office opened in August 1856 and closed in December 1901.[3]

The population of Greencastle was 125 in 1887,[4] and was 42 in 1902.[5]

See also

Vandalia, Iowa

References

1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Green Castle, Iowa
2. The History of Jasper County, Iowa, Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, &c: A Biographical Directory of Its Citizens, War Record of Its Volunteers in the Late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics ... History of the Northwest, History of Iowa ... Western Historical. 1878. pp. 503–504.
3. "GNIS Detail - Greencastle Post Office (historical)". geonames.usgs.gov. Retrieved July 4, 2021.
4. Cram, George Franklin (1887). 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. G.F. Cram. pp. 367–369.
5. Cram's Modern Atlas: The New Unrivaled New Census Edition. J. R. Gray & Company. 1902. pp. 203–207.