Petersville is an
unincorporated community
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in
Clinton County Clinton County may refer to:
*Counties named for George Clinton, first and third Governor of New York, and later the fourth Vice President of the United States:
**Clinton County, New York
** Clinton County, Ohio
*Counties named for DeWitt Clinton, ...
, in the
U.S. state
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of
Iowa
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.
History
Petersville was originally called Quigley.
The present name honors John Peters and family, pioneer settlers.
The town was
plat
In the United States, a plat ( or ) (plan) is a cadastral map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of land. United States General Land Office surveyors drafted township plats of Public Lands Survey System, Public Lands Surveys to ...
ted as Petersville in 1902.
A post office was established under the name Quigley in 1883, and renamed Petersville in 1902; this post office closed in 1935.
Petersville's population was 55 in 1925. The population was 28 in 1940.
References
Unincorporated communities in Clinton County, Iowa
1902 establishments in Iowa
Unincorporated communities in Iowa
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