Fern is an
unincorporated community located in the thirty-second
section of
Beaver Township,
Grundy County,
Iowa. As of February 2022 it has 14 inhabited houses.
Location
Fern lies on the junction of 150th Street and N Avenue of
Iowa Highway 14, northeast of
Holland, Iowa
Holland is a city in Grundy County, Iowa, United States. The population was 269 at the time of the 2020 census. It is part of the Waterloo– Cedar Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Geography
Holland is located at (42.399708, -92.799487 ...
, the location of its postal code. It goes under the
postal code 50642.
Businesses
Fern has a feed store, Fern Feed & Seed, and a
concrete grinding company, West Fork Grinding.
History
Fern had a
post office that opened under the name of Andersonville on June 22, 1892, until it was discontinued on December 31, 1907. The name was changed from Andersonville to Fern on March 20, 1894. A
creamery was built at Fern 1911, and is no longer in use. Fern's population was 25 in 1902, 50 in 1925, and 42 in 1940.
See also
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List of unincorporated communities in Iowa
This is a list of unincorporated communities in the U.S. state of Iowa, arranged in alphabetical order. This list contains a number of historical communities which no longer exist, and also includes a number of disincorporated cities.
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References
Unincorporated communities in Iowa
Unincorporated communities in Grundy County, Iowa
1892 establishments in Iowa
Populated places established in 1892
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