Adams County down to one post office?

Brian McMillin notified me of a new link (Scribd document) from the USPS of post offices “unrelated” to the list put out at the end of July. Much of it is a repeat of locations known to be under the gun in April. However, there are some additions.

Adams County, Iowa, is the smallest by population in the state (4029) and one of the smallest by area. It has three four incorporated places: Corning, the county seat, Carbon, Nodaway and Prescott.

Nodaway and Prescott are now on The List.

I thought the Prescott school was the more pressing thing to photograph, with it only being a K-6 school and one of the smallest even then. I guess I was wrong.

In addition, Marshall County now has six (adding St. Anthony), which is more than half of the county’s total outside of Marshalltown.

EDIT 8/7: I forgot Carbon was still incorporated. Oops. Google Maps marks a PO, but Street View shows the building no longer says “Post Office”, implying it closed between the time Jason Hancock photographed it in 2006 and when Google went through, probably 2009.

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