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Welcome to Placid ...

So far, we found very little information about Placid. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Placid to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Placid - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Placid, please Contact Us.


While we don't have the exact location of Placid , we believe that it would have been located within present day Dubuque County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Placid, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1899.

Time Zone: The area where Placid was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Placid would have been located in the (563) area code.

Communities Also Named Placid ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 2 communities that are also named Placid - they are located in Louisiana and Texas.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Placid.

Adding Placid to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Placid in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Placid was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

From that list, the Placid post office opened in 1899.

We also found Placid on a map titled Rand McNally Map of Iowa (1911).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Placid.

The official website for Dubuque County: www.dubuquecounty.org/

The official website for State of Iowa: https://www.iowa.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Placid, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>If you're interested in how the shape of Iowa's counties, including Dubuque, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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