Unincorporated community in Iowa, United States
Nansen was an unincorporated community in Chickasaw County, Iowa, United States. It was at the junction of 170th Street and Pembroke Avenue.[1]
History
Nansen in Chickasaw County, Iowa, in 1903 Nansen was established in Section 10 of Jacksonville Township,[2][note 1] a few miles northeast of the county seat of New Hampton.
Nansen's post office operated from 1897 to 1904.[3] The community's population was 22 in 1902.[4]
Nansen was noted in a 1932 article about Chickasaw County's lost villages.[5]
Notes
- ^ The name was misspelled as Mansen in the 1930 Annals of Iowa publication; this was noted and corrected in the 1931 edition.
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