Sherwood 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 Calhoun County, Iowa, in the United States.

History

Sherwood was originally called Mosely, and under the latter name 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 in 1899. It was later renamed Sherwood when the post office was established.

References

Unincorporated communities in Calhoun County, Iowa Unincorporated communities in Iowa {{CalhounCountyIA-geo-stub