Kemling, Iowa | |
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Coordinates: 41°09′59.97″N 95°16′42.98″W / 41.1666583°N 95.2786056°W | |
Country | United States |
State | Iowa |
County | Pottawattamie |
Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (CST)) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
Area code | 712 |
GNIS feature ID | 464242[1] |
Kemling or Kemlingham is a ghost town in Pottawattamie County, in the U.S. state of Iowa.
Kemling was located at 41°09′59.97″N 95°16′42.98″W / 41.1666583°N 95.2786056°W,[1] 8.5 miles east of Macedonia, Iowa.[2]
Kemling was founded as a post office on the Burlington Railroad.[2] This post office operated from 1894 to 1901.[3] After the post office closure, mail was routed through Macedonia.[2]
By the early 1900s, Kemling was listed among other Iowa towns and villages in Iowa's legislative documents.[4] Kemling's population was 10 in 1900.[5]
The population of Kemling was 26 in 1915,[6] 6 in 1925,[7] and was just 4 persons in 1940.[8]