Churchville is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in Warren County,

Iowa Iowa ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the upper Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west; Wisconsin to the northeast, Ill ...

, United States.

Geography

Churchville is located in Jefferson Township at the intersection of Churchville Street and 30th Avenue. It is southwest of Prole and north of Martensdale at an altitude of .

History

Churchville was founded by John Churchman in 1854. The Church of the Assumption, a Catholic church, was constructed in 1859 under the

Archdiocese of Dubuque The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Dubuque () is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or archdiocese, of the Catholic Church in the northeastern quarter of the state of Iowa in the United States. The Diocese of Dubuque was erected in 1837 and ...

. The building, the oldest Catholic church in the county, was destroyed in a fire in March 1933 and rebuilt soon afterward. Calvary Cemetery, which dates from at least 1854, has been associated with the Church of the Assumption and is located about a mile west of the community. The last regular

mass Mass is an Intrinsic and extrinsic properties, intrinsic property of a physical body, body. It was traditionally believed to be related to the physical quantity, quantity of matter in a body, until the discovery of the atom and particle physi ...

for the parish (established in 1890) was August 28, 2014. Parishioners were asked by the Des Moines Diocese to move to a larger parish. The building will continue to serve as a shrine where mass may be celebrated once a month and on special occasions. A rail line was established at Churchville by the late 1800s. Churchville's population was 62 in 1902. The town won two complaints (1917 and 1920) against

Chicago Great Western Railroad The Chicago Great Western Railway was a Class I railroad that linked Chicago, Minneapolis, Omaha, Nebraska, Omaha, and Kansas City, Kansas, Kansas City. It was founded by Alpheus Beede Stickney in 1885 as a regional line between Saint Paul, Minn ...

for repair of the local stock yards for shipping animals to market. Rail service to Churchville was discontinued in July 1921.Warren County, Iowa
. Iowa GenWeb Project. Accessed 2011-05-15 Churchville's population was 80 in 1925. The population was 75 in 1940.

Notable residents

* Adam Walsh (1901–1985) American football player and coach

References

{{authority control Unincorporated communities in Warren County, Iowa Populated places established in 1854 Unincorporated communities in Iowa 1854 establishments in Iowa

Geography

History

Notable residents

See also

References