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Osceola County, Iowa

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

1historic places

—earliest paper

1851formed

6,192pop. 2020

16cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 1 listed property in the county, first listed in 1981. Most listings are in or near Sibley.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Iowa is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Osceola titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

1 of 1 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

1 listed property

Property	City	Type	Listed
Osceola County Courthouse	Sibley	Building	1981

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Osceola was formed in 1851 (1851-01-15) from unknown / original county.

OSCEOLA created from Non-County Area 9 attached to POLK.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Osceola County population from 1880 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
2,219	8,725	10,223	10,607	10,181	10,064	8,371	7,003	6,192

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

16 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 16 of 16 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Baker Township Cemetery	43.31409	-95.56382
Fairview Cemetery	43.44835	-95.48626
Gilman Cemetery	43.31379	-95.8033
Goewey Prairie Cemetery	43.33548	-95.66377
Harrison Cemetery	43.31277	-95.44801
Holman Cemetery	43.39066	-95.76127
Hope Church Cemetery	43.41927	-95.82006
Horton Township Cemetery	43.44327	-95.54383
Mennonite Cemetery	43.32761	-95.45374
North Sibley Cemetery	43.45892	-95.74116
Ocheyedan Township Cemetery	43.41234	-95.54367
Saint Andrews Catholic Cemetery	43.39026	-95.75899
Saint Marys Cemetery	43.31529	-95.8033
Union Cemetery	43.43163	-95.43473
Wilson Township Cemetery	43.4511	-95.70405
Zion Lutheran Cemetery	43.46007	-95.54627

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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